The increasing public attention on green products prompted firms and government to focus on the design and manufacturing of these products. This study focuses on a supply chain system that consists of three members, namely, supplier, manufacturer, and government, and then investigates the effects of government subsidies on social welfare and the profits of supply chain members. We utilize game ...

Despite some empirical evidence to the contrary, government subsidy to higher education is usually presumed to be inequitable because college-educated workers earn more than less educated workers. Using a simple model of educational choice with endogenous wages and two worker types, I obtain strong results concerning this conßict between efficiency and equity — namely that equity and efficiency...

BACKGROUND Poor medical care and high fees are two major problems in the world health care system. As a result, health care insurance system reform is a major issue in developing countries, such as China. Governments should take the effect of health care insurance system reform on the competition of hospitals into account when they practice a reform. This article aims to capture the influences ...

In recent years, research examining determinants and consequences of the means-tested child care subsidy program (the Child Care and Development Fund [CCDF]) has grown dramatically. To measure subsidy utilization, existing studies typically rely on parent-reported measures of subsidy receipt drawn from large surveys. As the research literature on child care subsidies has grown, however, so have...

dependent on initial conditions, stochastic elements are also incorporated into the analysis. In this study, the effects of an export subsidy for cotton are analyzed using a linear elasticity model. COMPARATIVE STATICS OF AN The study explicitly addresses the interaction of EXPORT SUBSIDY current domestic policies with the proposed export subsidy. An export subsidy may be a successful The expec...

In this paper, we examine the effects of various industrial policies on the Korean economy using a dynamic general equilibrium model. We consider industria1 policies such as corporate income tax and subsidy as well as R&D subsidy policy. In the model we classify household sector into 10 income groups and classify production sector into 38 industries. In particular we distinguish the parts and m...

Until recently, access to housing-related finance has remained extremely limited in the developing world for low income people. Commercial banks, unable to access secondary mortgage markets, typically extend mortgages or other types of housing loans only to middle or upper income clients. Some governments have initiated large-scale housing subsidy programs targeting the poor; however, these ini...

Education and health care are basic services essential in any effort to combat poverty and are often subsidized with public funds to help achieve that purpose. This paper examines the effectiveness of public social spending on education and health care in several African countries and finds that these programs favor not the poor, but those who are better-off. It concludes that this targeting pr...

The removal of excreta or faecal sludge from full pit latrines – emptying is essential to extend the life sanitation technology, especially for millions users living in dense, urban areas Global South. Unfortunately, pit-emptying rarely practiced due factors related accessibility, disgust, and importantly, cost. We examined impact two different types vouchers distributed Blantyre, Malawi, under...

Health care is a basic service essential in any effort to combat poverty, and is often subsidized with public funds to help achieve that aim. This paper examines public spending on curative health care in several African countries and finds that this spending favours mostly the better-off rather than the poor. It concludes that this targeting problem cannot be solved simply by adjusting the sub...