the grand challenge in global health is the inequality in mortality and life expectancy between countries and within countries. according to global health 2035, the lancet commission celebrating the 20th anniversary of the world development report (wdr) of 1993, the world now has the unique opportunity to achieve a grand convergence in global mortality within a generation. this article comments...

BACKGROUND Microeconomic evaluations of public health programmes such as immunisation typically only consider direct health benefits and medical cost savings. Broader economic benefits around childhood development, household behaviour, and macro-economic indicators are increasingly important, but the evidence linking immunization to such benefits is unclear. METHODS A conceptual framework of ...

EUWAB-Project (European Union Welfare effects of Agricultural Biotechnology), Project VIB/TA-OP/98-07: “Microand Macro-economic Analysis of the Economic Benefits and Costs of Biotechnology Applications in EU Agriculture Calculation of the Effects on Producers, Consumers and Governments and Development of a Simulation Model”. This paper (pdf) can be downloaded following the link: http://www.agr....

EUWAB-Project (European Union Welfare effects of Agricultural Biotechnology), Project VIB/TA-OP/98-07: “Microand Macro-economic Analysis of the Economic Benefits and Costs of Biotechnology Applications in EU Agriculture Calculation of the Effects on Producers, Consumers and Governments and Development of a Simulation Model”. This paper (pdf) can be downloaded following the link: http://www.agr....

The grand challenge in global health is the inequality in mortality and life expectancy between countries and within countries. According to Global Health 2035, the Lancet Commission celebrating the 20th anniversary of the World Development Report (WDR) of 1993, the world now has the unique opportunity to achieve a grand convergence in global mortality within a generation. This article comments...

Spending on IT continues to show long-term growth throughout the economy, apparently reflecting a belief in the economic benefits of IT. However, we also see organizations struggle in practice to demonstrate such benefits. Conventional thinking suggests that individual organizations can improve their performance in this area through better financial analysis of opportunities. But does this char...

Vaccination is an established intervention that reduces the burden and prevents the spread of infectious diseases. Investing in vaccination is known to offer a wide range of economic and intangible benefits that can potentiate gains for the individual and for society. The discipline of economics provides us with microeconomic and macroeconomic methods for evaluating the economic gains attribute...

This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework that examines the role government policy plays in the development of entrepreneurship and its impact on economic development. The study builds on existing literature on entrepreneurship, economic development and government policy as it relates to entrepreneurial practices. The outcomes of literature review propose two hypotheses. Integrating ent...