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Are health care payments in Albania catastrophic? Evidence form ALSMS 2002, 2005 and 2008 [PDF]
The absent or poorly functioning risk pooling mechanisms and high amounts of out-of-pocket payments for health care expose households to financial risks associated with major illnesses or accidents. The aim of this paper is to analyse the extent to which
Packard, Truman G., Tomini, Sonila
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Andrology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The most prevalent solid tumors in young men are testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs), and embryonal carcinoma is the most common subtype among non‐seminomatous germ cell tumors (NSGCTs). Despite the excellent cure rates of cisplatin‐based chemotherapy, resistance develops in 15%–30% of patients with metastatic cancer, which results ...
Marco De Martino +5 more
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Elections related cycles in publicly supplied goods in Albania [PDF]
The phenomena of manipulation of the economy by the incumbent for electoral purpose are called Political Business Cycles (PBC), introduced by Nordhaus (1975).
Imami, Drini +2 more
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Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim Caffeine is the mainstay of treatment for apnea of prematurity, yet the optimal strategy and timing for discontinuation remain undefined. Marked inter‐centre variation in the practise of discharging preterm infants home on caffeine therapy has been reported.
Martin Kuntz +5 more
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Self-Selection and the Performance of Return Migrants: the Source Country Perspective. [PDF]
In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non ...
Augustin de Coulon, Matloob Piracha
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Global Apparel Value Chain in the Post‐MFA Era: Exploring Bangladesh's Competitive Edge
Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study revisits Bangladesh's competitive edge by examining patterns of global apparel trade during the post‐Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MFA) era using a large bilateral panel of 27 leading apparel exporters trading with 163 destinations with coverage of 90% of the world apparel exports.
Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakhruzzaman
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REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS AND THE IMMOVABLE PROPERTY MARKET IN ALBANIA [PDF]
The experience of other Eastern and Central European countries would suggest that in Albania, as the market for real property develops, there should also be developments in services that support real property transactions.
Flynn, Norman D. +1 more
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents the findings of a small‐scale qualitative study exploring the experiences of Foster Carers looking after unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC) who are identified or suspected victims of child trafficking (‘UASTC’—unaccompanied asylum‐seeking and trafficked children).
Rosie Galbraith
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Representation of obligate groundwater‐dwelling copepod diversity in European protected areas
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Groundwaters sustain diverse surface ecosystems and are populated by metazoan species, mostly invertebrates, that provide fundamental ecological functions and are often of prominent conservation value due to narrow endemism and high phylogenetic rarity.
Francesco Cerasoli +7 more
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The hole in the doughnut: Formalizing and testing a key model of degrowth
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Degrowth scholars often claim that capitalism generates social and ecological imbalances, as captured by Kate Raworth's leading doughnut model. We formalize this model using social and environmental indices and measure imbalances using their coefficient of variation.
Ashruta Acharya +2 more
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