“This work was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MEST, 2009-0078234); the National Nuclear R&D Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (No. 2012M2A2A7014020); a grant from the Korea Health Technology R&D Project, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republ...

1 Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Ministry for Health and Child Welfare, Harare, Zimbabwe, 3 Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 4 Independent consultant, Harare, Zimbabwe, 5 United Nations Population Fund, Harare, Zimbabwe, 6 Zimbabwe National AIDS Council, Harare, Zimbabwe, 7 Biomedical Research and Training Institute...

This special issue of Child Welfare emerged from a series of conversations with child welfare colleagues who partici pated in the work conducted by CWLA and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund as they developed a unique partnership entitled. Fostering Transitions: CWLA/Lambda Legal Joint Initiative To Support LGBTQ Youth and Adults Involved with the Child Welfare System. A special issue...

Two candidates compete for elective office. Each candidate has information she would like to reveal to the voters, but this requires costly advertising. The candidates can solicit contributions from interest groups to finance such advertising. These contributions are secured by promises to perform favors for the contributors, should the candidate win the election. Voters understand this and ele...

OBJECTIVE Sustainability of public social welfare programmes has long been of concern in development circles. An important aspect of sustainability is the ability to sustain the recurrent financial costs of programmes. A free maternal care programme (FMCP) was launched under the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2008 with a start-up grant from the British Government. This article...

Alberta government resource revenues are highly volatile. Adjustment of government spending to shifts in revenues imposes social and economic costs. To limit the impact of revenue volatility, many jurisdictions have established revenue stabilization funds. There is little empirical evidence on whether these funds improve welfare or whether some fund designs increase welfare by more than others....

We give an explicit proof of the result that non trivial conserved n−2 forms for a spin 2 field on a background corresponding to a solution to Einstein’s equation (with or without cosmological constant) are characterized uniquely by the Killing vector fields of the background. ∗ Research Associate of the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium). In dimensions n > 2, a consistent theory f...