This paper uses the 1998-99 Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS) data to examine the health-income relationship that underlies the absolute income hypothesis. To allow for nonlinearity and data heterogeneity, we use a partially linear semiparametric quantile regression model. Among more than dozen of socioeconomic variables, we find that family income, age and the food security sta...

53 Abstract Policymakers are beginning to appreciate the efficiency properties of pollution taxes, but concerns over equity remain. In this paper, we assess the distributional aspects of three types of emissions fees for vehicles—a fee based on total annual emissions; a fee based on emissions rates, in grams per mile; and a fee based on annual vehicle mileage—and we compare the impacts of fees ...

Opti-Money is a decision-support system for allocating assets that was developed at Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank. Based on customerand market-specific inputs, we solve a modified Markowitz-type nonlinear programming problem to produce optimal tailor-made investment portfolios in terms of asset classes. In its five years of operation, this mature system has provided excellent quantifiabl...

Information technology is one of the most important factors that have been impacting the development of forestry construction, with forest farmers playing an increasingly crucialrole in promotion of information technology. Survey data in this paper, collected from Yongan County and Youxi County in Fujian Province, usescombinedRough Set Theory (RST) andSupport Vector Machine (SVM), applied for r...

AIMS To assess the direct costs of necessary consumables for minimal care of a child with Type 1 diabetes in countries where the public health system does not regularly provide such care. METHODS Supply costs were collected between January 2013 and February 2015 from questionnaires submitted by centres requesting International Diabetes Federation Life for a Child Program support. All 20 centr...

In a New York Times op-ed earlier this year (April 9, 2003), Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation has proposed that Iraq establish an Alaska-style oil fund that would pay annual dividends to the citizens of Iraq.ii In Alaska, revenues from oil leases have been invested in a permanent fund, which has grown to $23.5 billion in 2002; part of the fund’s income is now distributed directly to ...

There is considerable diversity and variation in the land-based agricultural income tax rates across provinces Pakistan. The annual revenues from cultivated land, including orchards, are estimated at Rs. 5 billion Punjab, 2.5 Sindh, one KP, less than half a Baluchistan. Based on 2017-18 GDP estimates crops, two sets of were estimated: provincial other FBR for non-salaried persons. Tax crop inco...

Migration from low- and middle-income countries to high-income countries increasingly determines the severity of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the adopted country. Socially marginalized groups, about whom little is known, may account for a reservoir of TB among the immigrant populations. We investigated the rates of and risk factors for Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission, infection, and disea...

This note outlines the results of the annual survey of the fee income of Australian banks for 2000. This survey covers the fees that banks earn in the process of taking deposits, making loans and providing payment services to households and businesses within Australia. Results from the survey were first published in the Reserve Bank Bulletin in June 1999. The main findings of the survey are tha...