This paper critically considered the relationship amid private sector deposits and performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria for period 1990-2019. Private Sector Deposits was proxied by demand deposits, Deposit Savings time while Performance Return on Assets all reviewed. Secondary data obtained from website Central Bank statistical bulletin Nigerian Insurance Corporation (NDIC). We conduct...

Private health plans that enroll Medicare beneficiaries--known as Medicare Advantage (MA) plans--are being paid $11 billion more in 2009 than it would cost to cover these beneficiaries in regular fee-for-service Medicare. To generate Medicare savings for offsetting the costs of health reform, the Obama Administration has proposed eliminating these extra payments to private insurers and institut...

This paper assesses recent theorising and empirical evidence on the impact of fiscal policy—taxes, public expenditures and budget deficits—on long-run growth. It considers the relevance of recent advances in growth theory for low-income countries and compares the evidence for low-income countries with that for middleand highincome (OECD) countries. Recent advances in endogenous growth theory ha...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the longitudinal value of a chronic disease management program, My Health Guardian (MHG), in reducing hospital utilization and costs over 4 years. METHODS The MHG program provides individualized support via telephonic nurse outreach and online tools for self-management, behavior change and well-being. In follow up to an initial 18-month analysis of MHG, the current stud...

Although the link between improved infrastructure services and economic growth is uncertain, it is clear that reforms aimed at creating competition and regulating natural monopolies establish an environment conducive to private sector participation, incentives for companies to strive for efficiency savings that can ultimately be passed on to consumers, and greater provision of services (such as...

New health care delivery and payment models in the private sector are being shaped by active collaboration between health insurance plans and providers. We examine key characteristics of several of these private accountable care models, including their overall efforts to improve the quality, efficiency, and accountability of care; their criteria for selecting providers; the payment methods and ...

Although a large share of gross domestic product (GDP) and an even larger share of employment were generated by the private sector, the state played a dominant role in three ways: first, by emphasizing import substitution across the board and industrialization as core strategies; second, by appropriating a large share of the savings of the economy for its own use, largely for public investment ...

The foster care system attempts to prepare children and youth who have suffered child maltreatment for successful adult lives. This study documents the economic advantages of a privately funded foster care program that provided longer term, more intensive, and more expensive services compared to public programs. The study found significant differences in major adult educational, health, and soc...

This paper presents a novel private presence protocol, referred to as MP3, where the service provider does not have any knowledge of the social graph of its users. In prior work, a private presence protocol, referred to as DP5, was presented. However, the size of the presence database in this protocol grows rapidly as the number of users increases; this limits its scalability and increases its ...

The decentralisation of Australia's centralised wage fixation system has been seen as providing opportunities for employers and trade unions to tailor working arrangements to suit the needs of the workplace and to provide better paid long-term jobs. This paper details the productivity bargaining between the Private Hospitals' Association of Queensland and The Australian Workers' Union in 1995-9...