this paper presents a theoretical model in order to determine tile expected rate of durable good`s supply over time. the social plaliner maximizes tile sum of the discount ed net benefit. subject to the stochastic fluctuation in the stock of durable goods. it turns out that a social planner increases the expected rate of supply since uncertainty increases the user's loss from the view poin...

BACKGROUND Human error due to risky behaviour is a common and important contributor to acute injury related to poverty. We studied whether social benefit payments mitigate or exacerbate risky behaviours that lead to emergency visits for acute injury among low-income mothers with dependent children. METHODS We analyzed total emergency department visits throughout Ontario to identify women betw...

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...

Social benefit organizations face staggering challenges in their efforts to improve the lives of poor people, particularly in the developing world. Programs that offer management training and financial know-how to local leaders working in fields such as health, education, environmental protection, and economic development fill a widely recognized need for these organizations and their supporter...

1 ROPI TM refers to a software module now being commercialized as part of KTEC's KTRAK TM project tracking system for technology development. This paper describes part of the earlier research that led to development of the software module. Abstract The sole objective of government in " traditional " benefit-cost analysis is assumed to be maximizing dollars of aggregate generalized income. But e...

As the baby boom generation begins to retire and fiscal pressures from entitlement programs become more acute, evidence of improving health and increasing life expectancy in these cohorts has led many to suggest taking advantage of improved work capacity among older adults by increasing age requirements for the Social Security and Medicare programs. Currently, however, more than half of workers...