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Repositioning Health Microinsurance Products for the Informal Sector Groups
Businesses, 2022 In the least developed countries, the informal sector faces great challenges in accessing healthcare services since most people are not mainstreamed. This has prompted the formation of groups as a way of empowerment.
Levi Ng’ang’a Mbugua +1 more
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Informal payments - definitions and concepts
Health Economics and Management, 2019 Informal payments became an interesting issue in the context of healthcare reforms and a very widespread phenomenon in the healthcare sector that has been observed in many transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. Some studies have been conducted to clearly identify informal payments to overcome this complex problem with many
Krasimira Laleva, Elka Atanasova
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Rethinking informal payments by patients in Europe: An institutional approach [PDF]
Health Policy, 2017 The aim of this paper is to explain informal payments by patients to healthcare professionals for the first time through the lens of institutional theory as arising when there are formal institutional imperfections and asymmetry between norms, values and practices and the codified formal laws and regulations.
Williams, C.C., Horodnic, A.V.
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright +8 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques +2 more
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Informal Payments in Health Sector and Policies to Deal With (A Review Study)
بیمارستان, 2015 Background: Informal payments are paid to individuals /health care providing organizations offering as cash or non-cash and are formed out of formal payment channels.
Abdolvahed Khodamoradi +3 more
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Farmers’ Protests in Germany: Media Coverage and Types of Bias
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The German farmers’ protests of 2024 sparked widespread media coverage and public debate. Yet, media coverage was not always positive, reflecting the media's attention‐seeking and selective focus. Occurrences of farmers blocking media outlets reflected distrust in how their concerns were portrayed.
Felix Schlichte, Doris Läpple
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsIntroductionDeveloping modern agriculture and improving arable land allocation depend on financial support aligned with land-based production. However, rural credit markets in China have long been trapped in a “double bind” of insufficient formal credit ...
Jingbin Wang +4 more
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seasonal adjustment, JDemetra+, Romania, business cycles [PDF]
Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2023 After the 2008-2009 Global crisis, governments around the world implemented changes in taxes and regulations. In this study, using two survey datasets, we examine how these changes had affected retailers in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
HALIL D. KAYA
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