our research is directed at revealing the way cbd is approached in terms of the decision tofinance the actions it entails, with specific reference to the case of romania, in the context of the international/european and national regulations. after referring to the foreign and romanian professional literature, we shallproceed with a synthetic approach of the objectives related to cbd and the sus...

In August 2005, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) Secretariat suspended its five grants to Uganda following a PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report that exposed gross mismanagement in the Project Management Unit. How could this have been avoided? How can other countries avoid a similar pitfall? We argue that if a legitimate and fair decision-making process ...

INTRODUCTION................................................................................... 374 I. TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES VERSUS INFORMATION SERVICES ....................................................................................... 380 A. The Supreme Court Endorses Cable Modem Internet Access as an Information Service............................................. 382 B. DSL Migrat...

Current research on crowdfunding treats different crowdfunding forms as identical, and focuses on finding generic success factors in crowdfunding. We argue that funding decisions are contingent on the vastly different types of crowdfunding and that these require more attention. Against the backdrop of neuroscience and consumption value theory, we shed more light on crowdfunders’ decision making...

it is well-established that for a considerable period the united kingdom has spent proportionally less of its gross domestic product (gdp) on health-related services than almost any other comparable country. average european spending on health (as a % of gdp) in the period 1980 to 2013 has been 19% higher than the united kingdom, indicating that comparable countries give far greater fiscal prio...

BACKGROUND Funding of drugs for rare diseases (DRDs) requires decisions that balance fairness for all individuals within the healthcare system with compassion for affected individuals. Our study objective was to conduct a national online survey to determine the Canadian public's perspective, including regional variations, associated with DRD decision-making. METHODS The survey collected respo...

The objective of this study is to understand factors that affect on the MSMESs decision publish prospectus. data in are secondary data, form Prospectus Data, Total Funds, Funding Status, and Profit Sharing Percentages. All can be found I-Fintech website: Ammana. sample used were 337 Funding. This uses logistic regression with help STATA 15 analysis tool. results showed Financing Value Applicant...

A major change that has accompanied the world-wide “massification” of higher education is the new-found openness of policymakers to the use of competitive markets to steer the university sector. In many countries efforts to improve the quality of publicly provided higher education, both in teaching and in research, are leading to experiments with market-based policy instruments (Teixeira, et al...

To develop and pilot a framework based on multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to prioritize non-communicable diseases (NCDs) support health research funding decision-making. The involves identifying NCDs be prioritized, specifying prioritization criteria determining their weights from survey of stakeholders. mean the are applied NCDs’ ratings generate ‘total score’ for each NCD, by which pr...

Results: Local decision-making authority was perceived as greatly restricted by what public health activities were legally mandated and the categoric nature of funding sources, even as some leaders exercised deliberate strategic approaches. One’s workforce and board of health were also influential in making decisions regarding resource allocations. Challenges were expressed regarding making use...