... 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,...
... 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, ... mainly by the acquisition of existing Thai and joint
venture companies by foreign firms, especially in the banking sector (United Nations, 1998). The high level of
investment infinancial 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...
... clustering task, with over 15 research groups
submitting results in each campaign. Since the re-
lease of the first datasets, this task is becoming an
increasingly popular research topic among Infor-
mation ... person. In a typical
hiring process, for instance, candidates are eval-
uated not only according to their cv, but also ac-
cording to their web profile, i.e. information about
them 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 have
studied...
... 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
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Table 1: Summary Statistics of Variables of Poultry Egg years of schooling, age of farmers and location of farm
Farms inNigeria respectively. ... TE
of the farmers. The coefficients of years of school, age
and experience of farmers were positive, indicating that
these factors led to increase in technical inefficiency or
decrease in T.E. of ... production, Nigeria
Introduction
In Nigeria, the production of food has not increased at
the rate that can meet the increasing population. While
food production increases at the rate of 2.5%. Food
demand...
... 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 Entrants
Buyers
Suppliers
Substitutes
Industry
Competitors
Intensity
of Rivalry
Threat of
Substitutes
Threat of
New Entrants
Bargaining Power
of Suppliers
Bargaining ... accounting is a step further offinancial accounting. in which cost of
manufacturing is identified, not at the time of accounting period but at the time when the
product is manufactured. In simple...
... capital
profitability is declining. The internalization of information within the same institution may thus
enhance intra-circuit and inter-circuit stability by reducing the incentive to overfinancing.
The ... the core of
financial intermediation, in particular through establishment offinancial institutions specialized
in investment financing. This route has been followed to date in the industrialized ... placing money with
investment financial institutions in the capital market, and hold the remaining share in non-
interest bearing, short-term bank deposits (eq. 7). The share of savings going...
... in exploring on-line banking business as well as in promoting
non-bank financial institutions. Efforts should be made in upgrading financial
operations and financial services, and in conducting ... macro-economic management using traditional monetary policy
instruments.
C. Sequencing of institution building in the financial sector
The sequencing of institution building in the financialsector may differ ... China Statistics Yearbook, China Financial Yearbook and People’s Bank of China
Statistics Quarterly bulletin.
B. Development of direct financing and indirect financing markets
providing financing...
... repercussions of the defensive behaviour offinancial institutions for
the financing of the real sectorof the economy. To the extent that firms in the real sector are un-
able to obtain financing for ... period of low interest rates, real as well as nominal, and of low interest
margins for financial intermediaries. For many investors and many financial institutions, this
raised the problem of how ... something going wrong.
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In the theory offinancial in-
stitutions, therefore, the paradigmatic model of viable financial intermediation, due to Diamond
(1984), postulates an intermediary holding...