health economists look towards health care sector as a market whereby there is a distinct demand and supply phenomenon exists. dearth of regulation of the doctors' practices lead to inappropriate and unjustifiable demand for health care among the patients. in developing and under-developed countries, this adverse practice may push a poor family into a vicious circle of poverty and illness, espe...

due to its complexity and destructive nature, convection has been subject of many studies and researches among weather phenomena throughout the world. scientists have attempted for decades to generate different types of models to provide the possibility of abating or, at least, reducing convective weather phenomena effects on people’s lives. in south or southwest of iran, people are familiar wi...

faced with the challenges of healthcare reform, skills and new capabilities are needed to support the reform and it is of crucial importance in africa where shortages affects the health system resilience. edwards et al provides a good example of the challenge of implementing a mentoring program in one province in a sub-saharan country. from this example, various aspects of strengthening the cap...

Using a two-good, two-country model, we examine macroeconomic adjustment by allowing for decreasing and increasing marginal impatience (DMI and IMI). In the reference case where both countries have IMI, a negative output shock in one country lowers the interest rate and both countries’ welfare levels in steady state, whereas, when either one country has DMI, the negative income shock raises the...