Framing the Problem The major intellectual framing of Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage is implicit in its title. The report concerns fairness and efficiency 'on the path' to universal coverage. In other words, the approach is to think about securing universal coverage as a journey in which the task is to guide and steer the process in some directions rather than othe...

This study argues that diminishing marginal impatience (DMI ) as an intuitively plausible behavioural assumption of endogenous time preference has the potential for resolving important issues like the equity premium puzzle. It shows that, while applied to a model in the traditional overlapping generations (OG) framework, DMI is capable of generating assets prices with magnitude and volatility h...

The paper argues that WTO has not been functioning in a transparent manner and that the benefits of globalisation have not reached all countries. If Seattle is any indication, WTO is in fact 'a rich man's club'. Developed countries have been adopting the strategy of prying open the markets of developing countries while at the same time, erecting barriers that prevent access to markets in their ...

humor is a common act of communication in our daily life. today, there is a great deal of studies on the significance of happiness in mental and physical processes; hence the necessity of humor as one of its paradigm. this paper argues islamic perception of humor and whether it is recommended or prohibited by the comprehensive outlook of islam towards human life. juridical books have discussed ...

This paper argues against the notion 'functional category' (a kind of word-class) while accepting that individual words may be described as 'function' words or 'content' words. It focuses on the two least controversial examples of functional categories — 'determiner' and 'complementiser' — and argues that neither of these categories is needed; and if this conclusion is correct, there is even le...

Neural structures of interaction between thinking and language are unknown. This paper suggests a possible architecture motivated by neural and mathematical considerations. A mathematical requirement of computability imposes significant constraints on possible architectures consistent with brain neural structure and with a wealth of psychological knowledge. How language interacts with cognition...