Abstract T his paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the determinants of health financing in 177 developed and developing countries. The study introduces the variables of government effectiveness and control of corruption to capture the impact of governance quality on different mechanisms of health financing. Utilisng panel data analysis, namely system...

Micro financing is providing financial services and resources for low-income people to improve their financial situation. In many less developed countries, providing these services for low-income classes was next to impossible due to high interest rates and heavy collaterals and guarantees that banks and other credit institutions demand. Micro financing was used since 1960s as a fundamenta...

State-sponsored research can be considered a key driver of sustainable environmental, social and economic development. In recognition of this fact, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science set up (in 1995) the ongoing “Sustainable Cultural Landscape Development” research (CLR) programme. Since its inception, this programme has been addressing current socio-economic and ecological issues in regi...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction .. .................................... 93 I. Background . ................................ 102 A. Statutory Basis for Antitrust Offenses ........... 102 B. Judicial Construction of Antitrust Laws ......... 103 1. Monopolization and attempted monopolization: section 2 offenses ........................ 103 2. Combinations or contracts in restraint of trade: section...

BACKGROUND The last decade has seen widespread retreat from user fees with the intention to reduce financial constraints to users in accessing health care and in particular improving access to reproductive, maternal and newborn health services. This has had important benefits in reducing financial barriers to access in a number of settings. If the policies work as intended, service utilization ...

Ž . This paper develops a model of a laissez-faire decentralized banking system in which banks are shown to both underinvest in, and undertransmit expertise in long-term industrial Ž . finance. Government support for one financial institution ‘the development bank’ can serve to reduce these problems, but unqualified government support alone is not enough. The efficiency of government sponsorshi...

Abstract This chapter summarizes the main findings from book in relation to conceptual framework centered on linked but separate concepts of assurance and insurance value nature, then highlight key methods developed namely physical assessments, co-design, a full integrated economic assessment model that incorporates avoided costs other co-benefits. can help generate implement natural scheme pro...

One of the challenges to maintain an agenda for universal coverage and equitable health system is to develop effective structuring and management of health financing. Global experiences with different systems of health financing suggests that a strong public role in health financing is essential for health systems to protect the poor and health systems with the strongest state role are likely t...

Agricultural investment and financing systems in USA, France and Japan have their own features and advantages. Through comparison of agricultural investment and financing systems in foreign advanced countries, this article is going to put forward some enlightenments for reform of agricultural investment and financing system in China.