Sources of funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición; Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares; Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria–Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación; Fundación Mapfre 2010; Consejería de Salud de la Junta de Andalucía; Department of Health of the Au...

The decline of regional Australia in terms of wealth and population during the two decades since 1980 has compelled the Federal Government to intervene. In 1997 the Australian Federal Government devoted in excess of $A460 million to a grant award scheme called the Regional Telecommunication Infrastructure Fund (RTIF) in which regional communities identified local telecommunication problems and ...

The Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament (also referred to as the "senate,") plays a number of different roles. It is an instrument for reconciling the interests of regional and federal elites and for lobbying regional interests. It is a political tribune for regional leaders to address the president, the government and the people. It is a new kind of meeting for the ...

Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory betweenand within-group components as well as an “overlappi...

BACKGROUND This study investigates the perception of the general public regarding the concentration to metropolitan, hospitals of cardiac and cerebrovascular surgeries, and the perceived public need for government policies to resolve this issue. METHODS A total of 800 participants were recruited for our telephone interview survey. Quota sampling was performed, adjusting for age and sex, to se...

The Asia-Pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. At the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. Advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...

Regional Property is one of the important elements in administration government and services to community. Therefore, Apparatus Organizations need manage properly. This study aims describe analyze process preparing Requirement Plans (RKBMD) by Apparatuses Tomohon City. used qualitative research methods. The locations were 4 (four) regional apparatuses, namely Health Office City, Education Cultu...

This paper studies the repayment of regional debt in a multi-region economy with a central authority: who pays the obligation issued by a region? With commitment, a central government will use its taxation power to smooth distortionary taxes across regions. Absent commitment, the central government may be induced to bailout the regional government in order to smooth consumption and distortionar...

While there is some dispute over the definition of federal systems of government and which of the world's countries should be considered as federations, the essential feature of this type of government is the combination of a central or general government with regional ones ruling directly over shared territory and citizens. Sovereignty is shared with each level of government having a degree of...