Children’s self-concept and theory of mind are both important factors in children’s social, cognitive and emotional development. Research on gender diff erences in children’s theory of mind understanding reveals contradictory fi ndings such as higher degree of social understanding or theory of mind in girls (Villaneuva Badenes, Clemente Estevan, & Garcia Bacete 2000), boys score higher than gir...

This paper examines the link between price regulation and pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) investment. I identify two mechanisms through which price regulation may exert an influence on R&D: an expected-profit effect and a cash-flow effect. Using established models of the determinants of pharmaceutical R&D, I exploit a unique fact to quantify firm exposure to pharmaceutical price r...

Known for its ancient metropolises, China has recently amazed the world with its rapid urban development as it enters the new millennium. Although China is still a predominately agrarian society with only 36 percent of its population living in cities in 2000, it has more people living in cities (456 million) than the total population of any other nation in the world except India (National Burea...

There is an emerging consensus within the international development community to subscribe to a human rights based approach to development. Most countries have signed onto international human rights conventions that have important implications for national legislative frameworks. The World Bank has thus far not directly endorsed a human rights based approach to development, but has argued that ...

We should like to call the attention of our readers to the World Report on Women's Health 2006, edited by Guest Editors Dorothy Shaw and Louis G. Keith, which was published as the September issue of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics (Int J Gynecol Obstet 2006; 94:207–394). The importance of this publication was highlighted in remarks made by Dr. Shaw, President of the Inter...

In 1977 the World Health Assembly resolved that the main social target for the world’s govemments should be the attainment of a socially and economically productive life for their citizens by the year 2000. In 1978 the Alma-Ata Declaration reaffirmed this pledge and stated that the “primary health care” strategy should be the main vehicle for achieving the goal of “Health for All by the Year 20...

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