We examine how health shocks impact on households' decision to save, and different socioeconomic ethnic groups respond in Australia. find that are associated with a substantial reduction individual savings. do not any substitution of labor supply by partner response an individual's shocks. extend previous work examining whether access formal insurance or government benefits mitigate the economi...

There are several examples of national collaboration between official Veterinary Services and the private sector, in both developed and developing countries. In developed countries national veterinary systems tend to have a 'centripetal' structure: from the private to the somewhat centralised public system, whilst in developing countries there is currently the reverse, i.e. a 'centrifugal' move...

With rising income and the emergence of modern shopping centers in urban China, shopping trips by private car becomes more and more common, leading to higher carbon emissions in the transport sector. Encouraging car owners to shift transport mode from private car to public transport could achieve significant emissions reductions. This study estimate carbon emissions savings by shifting from pri...

Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially fragile households also have the highest lottery expenditures as a proportion of income. This combination suggests that Prize-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine principal-security with lottery-type jackpots, can increase saving...

Social impact bonds are payment by results contracts that leverage private social investment to cover the up-front expenditure associated with welfare services. The introduction of private principles and actors through outcome-based commissioning has received a great deal of attention in social policy research. However, there has been much less attention given to the introduction of private cap...

Introduction: The role of private funding in long-term care programmes (LTC) is increasing worldwide. As stated by the World Health Organisation (WHO), funding is a major tool for policy and planning. Although this is well accepted in the public sector, the policy aspects of private funding have been largely overlooked in the European countries, particularly in those with a consolidated welfare...

Purchasing by private large corporations put forth significant environmental impact in their investments of supplies and services. An increasing number of private large firms are adopting and implementing CSR (social responsibility) framework and a number of underlying policies and principles, such as SHE (safety, health, and environment). The purpose of this thesis is to examine how private mu...

Now a day's cloud computing became an attractive area of research and practices over the last few years. An increased number of private and public sector organizations have either adopted cloud company based solutions or seriously consider moving to cloud computing. In this paper we initiated a project designing and setting up a private cloud infrastructure in an academic environment. The ...