... 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 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 ... 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...
... capitalprofitability is declining. The internalization of information within the same institution may thusenhance 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 withinvestment 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 promotingnon-bank financial institutions. Efforts should be made in upgrading financial operations and financial services, and in conducting ... macro-economic management using traditional monetary policyinstruments.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 ChinaStatistics Quarterly bulletin.B. Development of direct financing and indirect financing marketsproviding 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.25 In the theory offinancial in- stitutions, therefore, the paradigmatic model of viable financial intermediation, due to Diamond (1984), postulates an intermediary holding...