... protocols. Financing reforms did not discriminate in favor of RH services; nevertheless, since the late nineties the country has been introducing exemptions that have increasingly focused ... also committed to maintaining the integrity of the health SWAp at least in the medium term. The implications of the changing financing context on the health sector and RH in particular as ... HSR in Ghana should lead to the delivery of RH interventions. However, findings seem to imply that HSR are not translating into service delivery because of inadequate capacity in terms of drugs,...
... mainly by the acquisition of existing Thai and joint venture companies by foreign firms, especially in the bankingsector (United Nations, 1998). The high level of investment in financial institutions ... analyses the impactof foreign direct investment in Thailand by pointing out its nature and origin in terms of the major sources of FDI and the industries most affected by them. Also included in this ... financial hub of the ASEAN region. The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) made significant investment in Thailand, both in the financial institutions sector and the industry sector, ...
... clustering task, with over 15 research groupssubmitting results in each campaign. Since the re-lease of the first datasets, this task is becoming anincreasingly popular research topic among Infor-mation ... person. In a typicalhiring process, for instance, candidates are eval-uated not only according to their cv, but also ac-cording to their web profile, i.e. information aboutthem available in the ... pa-per. We want to evaluate the actual impactof us-ing query refinements in the Web People Search(WePS) clustering task (as defined in the frame-work of the WePS evaluation). For this, we havestudied...
... considered in terms of overall health spending, these costs constitute only a tiny portion of total health spending – 4% in low-income countries, 2% in lower middle-income countries and less than 1% in ... average of US$ 11.4 billion per year (Figure 4). This amounts to an annual per capita investment of under US$ 1 in low-income countries, US$ 1.50 in lower middle-income and US$ 3 in upper middle-income ... country income category). The total burden is lowest in the low-income countries, in part because the value of lost earnings in this group is low and in part because the total population of this...
... Technical Efficiency of Poultry Egg Production in Nigeria 461Table 1: Summary Statistics of Variables of Poultry Egg years of schooling, age of farmers and location of farmFarms inNigeria respectively. ... TE of the farmers. The coefficients of years of school, ageand experience of farmers were positive, indicating thatthese factors led to increase in technical inefficiency ordecrease in T.E. of ... production, Nigeria Introduction In Nigeria, the production of food has not increased atthe rate that can meet the increasing population. Whilefood production increases at the rate of 2.5%. Fooddemand...
... health and well-being. In Nigeria, child trafficking and prostitution have come under increased attention in recent times. Street trading, working in drinking parlours are some of the other risky ... criminal acts include urban gangsters and other vices. Studies have shown an increasing rate of young people’s involvement in reported criminal cases with increasing unemployment contributing ... people, resulting from excessive consumption of certain foods and lack of physical exercises, are also increasing in incidence. Young people are often attracted by processed and refined foods....
... Definition of accounting In general, accounting is a process of collecting, recording, reporting information. To go into details, accounting is also considered as a set of practice and body of ... Elements of Industry Structure New EntrantsBuyersSuppliersSubstitutesIndustryCompetitorsIntensity of RivalryThreat of SubstitutesThreat of New EntrantsBargaining Power of SuppliersBargaining ... main functions of accounting 6 2.2. Definition of cost accounting and its function and objectives 7 2.2.1. Definition of cost accounting: 7 2.2.2. Functions and objectives of cost accounting...
... to the high intensity wind stress, there could be continualproduction of hydrous metal oxides becoming part of epilimnion.Since the hypolimnion often contains higher concentrations of iron andmanganese ... other clay minerals but most are based on one of thesetwo stacking schemes, with differences in the geometry of stacking andsubstitution of other metals for aluminum and silicon creating unique ... (Mullins,1 977). An example of biological activity alteringspeciation of metals indirectly was reported in Corpus Chnisti Bay, wherereducing conditions during the summer led to precipitation of...
... to Financial Services inNigeria shows that owning a business has become the main source of income for 19.5 million adult Nigerians (EFInA, 2011). 23% of the respondents in this survey indicated ... OPPORTUNITY INNIGERIA 255.1 Education, gender and empowerment in Nigeria 255.2 Education in Nigeria 26 Gender inniGeria report 2012: improvinG the Lives of GirLs and Women inniGeria 5 2 ... harassment of young women students training to be teachers in a Federal College of education in Northern Nigeria. The authors make the point that: “acceptance of institutionalised forms of sexual...
... translate into substantial labour supply gains in all countries. This in turn will translate to an accumulated gain in income of over 36 billion dollars in China, 15 billion dollars in India and ... narrow view of economic impactof chronic diseases, in that it mainly explored the impactof disease on the economy through change in labour supply, or the opportunity cost of one unit of labour, ... 0 Nigeria SR alpha% of t reatment(funded) from savings)India SR alphacapital per workerNi geri aSavings Nigeria Capital depreciationCapital per worker IndiaSavings IndiaCost diabetes IndiaCost...