In Sri Lanka, the majority of farmers are generally poor,and rely on subsistence agriculture. If these farmers can even partially be made responsive to market needs, as opposed to current household needs, they could cultivate at least some income generating crops, which if sustained, can reduce their poverty. However, high transaction costs associated with obtaining market information have cont...

LONG ABSTRACT: The present paper aims to study the incidence of malnutrition among the four southern states in India. It applies capability approach developed by A.K Sen. along with Nussbaum to assess the impact of malnutrition on child well-being. Well being is what people can do (capabilities) as opposed to what they actually do. Besides, we calculate BCI (Basic Capability Index) to compare t...

Making use of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey coupled with air pollution data generated by The Air Pollution Model (TAPM), this paper employs the life satisfaction approach to estimate the cost of air pollution from human activities in South East Queensland. This paper offers at least three improvements over much of the existing literature: (1) wi...

The greater use of microeconomic and survey based data in addressing key financial stability related questions is a natural outcome of the recent financial crisis. Amongst other benefits, the use of such data enables a more precise understanding of the differing attitudes and responses of individual agents such as households to financial shocks. However, some difficulties can arise with the use...

This paper investigates in detail the determinants of job satisfaction in a developing country. Two main results emerge from our analysis. Firstly, we show that as opposed to the empirical evidence from industrial countries, Chilean self-employed workers are more satisfied with their job than Chilean employees only after controlling for job protection and occupational hazard. Descriptive statis...

Underwater birthing has become a popular birth practice in some areas of the country. Although many of these deliveries occur in a home birth setting, the practice has also been implemented in hospitals and birthing centers. There is continued controversy about the risks and benefits of underwater birthing (as opposed to hydrotherapy during labor), and many risk managers are unaware of these po...

Incident reports are intended to help identify problems in safety critical systems and aid in preventing subsequent accidents, thus improving safety. Unfortunately, incident-reporting forms are generally unstructured, providing little guidance to the reporter on how to describe the critical events of an incident. As a result, most reports contain information on what happened, as opposed to why ...

American political opinion.?Politicians of America are opposed to socialized medicine. We reproduce selected points from the address by Congressman Otto Passman given at the annual meeting of the Louisiana State Medical Society (Passman, 1951) : (1) Certainly the doctors are numbered among the most learned and outstanding citizens. (2) It is stated without reservation that the nation is in grav...

The primary objective in the discrimination problem is to assign a set of alternatives into predefined classes. During the last two decades several new approaches, such as mathematical programming, neural networks, machine learning, rough sets, multi-criteria decision aid (MCDA), etc., have been proposed to overcome the shortcomings of traditional, statistical and econometric techniques that ha...

Many National Tuberculosis Programmes (NTPs) receive Technical Assistance (TA) for the implementation and evaluation of their TB-control strategies. KNCV tuberculosis Foundation (KNCV) in the Netherlands is a TA organization providing assistance for many years in over 30 countries. The NTPs use their own surveillance data to assess TB control strategies. These data are not accurate enough to se...