Resource allocation problems are concerned with the allocation of limited resources among competing activities so as to achieve the best performances. In systems which serve many usersthere is a need to respect some fairness rules while looking for the overall efficiency. The so-called Max-Min Fairness is widely used to meet these goals. However, allocating the resource to optimize the worst pe...

This paper investigates the determinants of the dynamic equity-commodity return correlations between five commodity futures sub-sectors (i.e. energy, foods and fibers, grains and oilseeds, livestock, and precious metals) and two equity market indices (i.e. S&P 500 and Russell 3000). We employ the DCC model, as well as three time-varying copulas: (i) the normal copula, (ii) the student’s t copul...

BACKGROUND In the transition from a planned economy to a market-oriented economy, China's state funding for health care declined and traditional coverage plans collapsed, leaving China's poor exposed to potentially ruinous health care costs. In reforming health care for the 21st century, equity in health care financing has become a major policy goal. To assess progress towards this goal, this p...

BACKGROUND There is limited evidence on how health care inputs are distributed from the sub-national level down to health facilities and their potential influence on promoting health equity. To address this gap, this paper assesses equity in the distribution of health care inputs across public primary health facilities at the district level in Tanzania. METHODS This is a quantitative assessme...

BACKGROUND Equity of access to healthcare remains a major challenge with families continuing to face financial and non-financial barriers to services. Lack of education has been shown to be a key risk factor for 'catastrophic' health expenditure (CHE), in many countries including India. Consequently, ways to address the education divide need to be explored. We aimed to assess whether the innova...

equitable distribution of health system resources has been a serious challenge for long ago among the health policy makers. conducted studies have mostly ever had emphasis on equality rather than equity. in this paper we have attempted to examine both equality and equity in resources distribution.this is an applied and descriptive study in which we plotted lorenz and concentration curves to des...

The most important objectives in portfolio management are to have the highest average return at a certain level of risk and eliminate unsystematic through diversification. Measuring performance their portfolios has an place investment decisions for investors who want maximum risk. In order measure performance, there three basic methods; Sharpe Ratio, Treynor Ratio Jensen’s Alpha indices. this s...

During the past couple of decades, brand equity has emerged as one of the key concepts in marketing. Literature concerned with consumer brand relationship is calling for more studies in order to increase understanding of brand equity dimensions. Therefore, this study aims to contribute to the existing body of knowledge by investigates the impact of brand equity, on consumers’ brand purchase int...