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Global health worker salary estimates: an econometric analysis of global earnings data
Background Human resources are consistently cited as a leading contributor to health care costs; however the availability of internationally comparable data on health worker earnings for all countries is a challenge for estimating the costs of health ...
Juliana Serje+3 more
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Financing Constraints and Corporate Investment
Most empirical models of investment rely on the assumption that firms are able to respond to prices set in centralized securities markets (through the "cost of capital" or "q").
Steven M. Fazzari+2 more
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Do Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities Provide Useful Measures of Financing Constraints?
No. This paper investigates the relationship between financing constraints and investment-cash flow sensitivities by analyzing the firms identified by Fazzari, Hubbard, and Petersen as having unusually high investment-cash flow sensitivities.
S. Kaplan, Luigi Zingales
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Risk Management: Coordinating Corporate Investment and Financing Policies
This paper develops a general framework for analyzing corporate risk management policies. We begin by observing that if external sources of finance are more costly to corporations than internally generated funds, there will typically be a benefit to ...
Kenneth A. Froot+2 more
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Introduction: Utilization of recommended antenatal care (ANC) throughout the pregnancy period is a proven healthy behavior in reducing maternal mortalities and morbidities.
Nausad Ali+6 more
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Prevalence and associated determinants of malaria parasites among Kenyan children
Background Approximately 80% of deaths attributed to malaria worldwide occurred mainly in Africa in 2015. Kenya is one of the major malaria endemic countries, making malaria the leading public health concern in this country.
Marufa Sultana+5 more
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Energy financing for energy retrofit in COVID-19: Recommendations for green bond financing
The aim of study is to estimate the role of energy financing for energy retrofit in COVID-19, with the intervening role of green bond financing. For this, Kalman technique is applied to infer the empirical findings.
Linyun Zhang+4 more
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Background The pursuit of efficiency and productivity is one of the goals of health systems. In the era of Sustainable Development Goals and particularly the move towards universal health coverage, it is imperative to curb wastage of resources to ensure ...
Maysoun Dimachkie Masri, Eyob Zere Asbu
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Background: The ambitious development agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires substantial investments across several sectors, including for SDG 3 (healthy lives and wellbeing).
Karin Stenberg, MSc+10 more
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Financing experimentation [PDF]
Entrepreneurs must experiment to learn how good they are at a new activity. What happens when the experimentation is financed by a lender? Under common scenarios, i.e., when there is the opportunity to learn by "starting small" or when "noncompete ...
Drugov, Mikhail, Macchiavello, Rocco
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