Abstract We analyze government interventions in the eurozone banking sector during 2008–2009 financial crisis. Using a novel data set, we document that fiscally constrained governments “kicked can down road” by providing banks with guarantees instead of fully-fledged recapitalizations. econometrically address endogeneity associated bailout decisions identifying their consequences. find forbeara...

OBJECTIVES A significant amount of literature documents the challenges of undertaking evaluative research on the public health impacts of interventions in the non-health sector. However, few studies have investigated why such studies are undertaken despite the undoubted challenges. Taking housing as a case study, the authors aimed to identify the factors contributing to successful evaluative re...

The global burden of disease, especially the part attributable to infectious diseases, disproportionately affects populations in developing countries. Inadequate access to pharmaceuticals plays a role in perpetuating this disparity. Drugs and vaccines may not be accessible because of weak distribution infrastructures or because development of the desired products has been neglected. This situat...

The fruit and vegetable industry remains one of Ghana’s most promising agricultural sectors mainly because heightened awareness the health benefits associated with their consumption. However, food safety is ultimate concern due to association foodborne hazards resulting in escalation illness. This report a review key horticultural value chain. study identified risk factors that contaminate frui...

The U.S. Agency for International Development’s strategy for fragile states recognizes the importance of providing health and other key social services as part of humanitarian emergency response and post-conflict interventions (USAID 2005). Concentrating on health needs is critical for dealing with immediate epidemiological crises (Checchi et al. 2007), restoring state functioning, and contribu...

Having realized the potential for information and communication technology (ICT)’s contribution to a nation’s socio-economic, socio-technical, socio-cultural and sociopolitical development, countries have been rushing to implement ICT projects in the public sector – namely e-government, through the direct/indirect supervision of institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank and other ...

Informal employment is a pervasive and persistent feature of most developing and developed economies. Labour taxation and labour market regulations are deemed two major causes for operating in the informal sector. Using data from France, Italy, and Spain, we analyse gross job flows and gross worker flows in the formal and informal sectors in the presence of lenient employment protection legisla...