The purpose of this article is to examine the notion that reinsurance can stabilise the financial operation of small community based health schemes (micro-insurance) in low-income settings. Stabilisation activity focuses on counteracting adverse financial consequences of local catastrophes, the impact of excessive statistical fluctuations due to small group size, and the error in estimating pro...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) places the issue of taxation of cross-border e-commerce transaction as one of its top four projects for investigation. In January 2001, some member countries agreed to a series of guidelines on how to apply existing tax treaties to Web transactions. After discussing potential threats and challenges facing etax administrators and p...

AIMS The perceived success of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in influencing national and global public health policies has led to growing interest in promulgating new international legal instruments to address global health issues-including calls for a Framework Convention on Alcohol Control (FCAC). METHODS Despite broad support in the public health community, the authors ...