QUESTIONS What is the economic value for an individual to invest in physiotherapy undergraduate education in Australia? How is this affected by increased education costs or decreased wages? DESIGN A cost-benefit analysis using a net present value (NPV) approach was conducted and reported in Australian dollars. In relation to physiotherapy education, the NPV represents future earnings as a phy...

Chinese government is facing the “capital bottleneck” problem for developing urban environmental infrastructure including sewerage treatment and MWS disposal services to achieve the environmental targets set for the 10 Five Year Plan. The solution is worked out as introducing the private investment. This study argue that Public Private Partnership (PPP) is the best available solution for develo...

Organizations typically use very robust analysis techniques to determine how best to spend resources in order to increase revenue and decrease costs or losses. However, few organizations attempt such analysis processes to determine the level and type of cyber security mechanisms in which they invest and which they maintain. Key performance and evaluation metrics are not available, so those orga...

Regional integration has been used with varying success to overcome disadvantages associated with small size. The fundamental premise for regional cooperation in the Caribbean has been the promotion of economic development particularly in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. The opportunity exists however, for use of a regional approach to develop strategic responses to other issues essent...

one of the most important strategies for governments to increase the efficiency of different economic sectors, including public services such as water, is to protect and strengthen the private sector. bot and boo contracts are among the most common and popular procedures of development of participation and investment from private sector. in this context, providing a good basis for the selection...

today one of the major questions in the iranian economy is that do liquidity injected into the economy more effected productive activities or speculative activities .this study was conducted to compare the effects of liquidity growth on real sector and assets market bubbles in iranian economy during the period 1994(2)-2012(1). for this purpose, price index of four major assets in iranian econom...

Strong investment has led to a large US current account deficit − In the United States, the total investment rate rose throughout the 1990s, reflecting mostly a rapid acceleration in the purchase of machinery and equipment by the business sector, notably in real terms. In contrast, the national saving rate remained flat during the 1990s, masking significant offsetting changes in the public and ...