Background International and domestic funding for malaria is critically important to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Its equitable distribution is key in ensuring that the available, scarce, resources are deployed efficiently for improved progress and a sustained response that enables eradication. Methods We used concentration curves and concentration indices to assess inequalities...

This paper analyzes the impacts of financial liberalization and foreign bank entry on competitiveness and soundness of domestic banking system as well as credit growth in association with financial sector development, focusing on MENA region’s comparative benchmarking performances with those of middle -income countries. We find that financial sector development is positively related to foreign ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is changing its method of measuring the growth of the U.S. economy. Shifts in the structure of the economy—particularly the spectacular fall in computer prices—have meant that BEA’s traditional “fixed-base-year” method of tracking the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) has tended to overstate growth in recent years. As a res...

As total health care expenditures are expected to constitute an increasing portion of the US gross domestic product during the coming years, the US health care system is anticipating a historic spike in the need for care. Outsourcing medical and surgical care to other nations has expanded rapidly, and several ethical, legal, and financial considerations require careful evaluation. Ultimately, t...

Among the proposed network models, the hidden variable (or good get richer) one is particularly interesting, even if an explicit empirical test of its hypotheses has not yet been performed on a real network. Here we provide the first empirical test of this mechanism on the world trade web, the network defined by the trade relationships between world countries. We find that the power-law distrib...

Since 1990, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has published a series of annual Human Development Reports (HDRs) in which the human development index (HDI) is computed for each country. This index has become an important alternative to the traditional unidimensional measure of development (i.e. the gross domestic product). Although the index still fails to include any ecological co...

gross domestic product plus a small percentage. If one used data from recent years, both of these metrics would only slow the growth of health spending relative to the size of the economy as a whole. We do not expect that Baumol’s hypothesis will be proved false, but one may reasonably hope that the previously inexorable expansion of the fraction of our national effort that is devoted to health...

OBJECTIVE To describe the number and distribution of pediatricians per child nationally and on a state-by-state basis relative to the economic conditions within each state. STUDY DESIGN Real inflation-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) per capita (1996 dollars) was plotted against the number of all active physicians and pediatricians in the United States for all years data were available. ...