Abstract Research on the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) environmental quality has not reached consensus. This paper examines potential structural break in relationship between FDI and environment from perspective economic scale. The results panel threshold estimation for 67 countries different income groups show that carbon emissions shifts positive to negative at level stages, using...

BACKGROUND The promotion of patient safety and drug safety through promotion of pharmacist's drug safety practice was among the most important aims of China's health delivery system reform, but regional inequity in pharmacist's drug safety practice was still serious in China. METHODS The 2011 national patient safety and medication error baseline survey was carried out for the first time in Ch...

This study was conducted using regression analysis of changes in the value GDP per capita as a result influence domestic lending to private sector (as percentage GDP) and share entrepreneurship GDP. The showed that change volume loans has greater impact on capita. However, it should also be noted an increase factors time series can affect this conclusion.

In order to keep the economic growing, the Chinese government released series of public policies with regard to stimulate consumption and expand domestic demand. This paper, based on the series data of GDP, Per Capita Annual Disposable Income of Urban Households (PCAD), and Per Capita Annual Net Income of Rural Households (PCAN) of Gansu province from 1978 to 2007, analyzed the relationship and...

BACKGROUND The current food, fuel, and financial crises have highlighted the importance of school feeding programs both as a social safety net for children living in poverty and food insecurity, and as part of national educational policies and plans. OBJECTIVE To examine the costs of school feeding, in terms of both the absolute cost per child and the cost per child relative to overall educat...