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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, Arash Rashidian, Siamak Aghlmand, Mohmad Arab   +3 more
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Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki, Francisca N. Muteti, Annemie Maertens, Michael Ndegwa, Hope Michelson, Mercy Mbugua, Jason Donovan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Informal care provision in Europe: regulation and profile of providers. ENEPRI Research Report No. 96, November 2011 [PDF]

, 2011
This report investigates regulations for the provision of informal care in 21 member states of the European Union. We focus on the comparison of public support for informal care, and compare in detail the monetary benefits that can be used to finance ...
Kraus, Markus, Riedel, Monika
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Risk management externalities in agrifood supply chains

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Firms may under‐ or over‐invest in risk management from the social planner's perspective, resulting in a negative externality on other economic agents in the supply chain. The externality of risk management is particularly relevant for agrifood supply chains, which frequently experience disruptions and play a primary role in preventing major ...
Jeffrey Hadachek, Meilin Ma
wiley   +1 more source

Informal Payments for Healthcare Services in Lithuania and Ukraine: [book chapter] [PDF]

, 2015
The healthcare systems of many European post-communist and post-Soviet countries have been considerably affected by informal patient payments (also known as ‘under-the-table’ or ‘envelope’ payments) (Chawla et al., 1998; Gaal et al., 2006; Stepurko et al.
Pavlova, Milena, Groot, Wim, Gryga, Irena, Murauskiene, Liubove, Stepurko, Tetiana   +4 more
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Firm turnover under asymmetric information: Tanzania's agro‐dealer sector

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study firm turnover (i.e., entry and exit) and its consumer implications in a market characterized by asymmetric information. Using a three‐round census of agro‐dealers in Tanzania's Morogoro Region, we document annual firm entry and exit rates of 33% and 17%, respectively.
Alix Naugler, Hope Michelson, Sarah Janzen, Christopher Magomba   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Income sharing for common pool resources with uncertain productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We address the interconnected issues of externalities in the use of a natural common‐pool resource system and adverse effects of environmental uncertainty on risk‐averse resource users. We set up a simple analytical model and derive conditions such that insurance by means of an income sharing mechanism mitigates externalities and hence ...
Claudia Kelsall, Martin Quaas, Nicolas Quérou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Brief Insight into the Study of Informal Health Care Payments in Romania

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2013
Informal health care payments are a frequently studied topic in Eastern European health care systems, given their impact on the financing of the health care sector.
Marius Ionuţ UNGUREANU, Cristian Marius LITAN, Ioana Andreea RUS, Răzvan Mircea CHERECHEŞ   +3 more
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“Our fear is finished,” but nothing changes: efforts of marginalized women to foment state accountability for maternal health care in a context of low state capacity

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Women in India are often asked to make informal payments for maternal health care services that the government has mandated to be free.
Marta Schaaf, Jashodhara Dasgupta
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The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
wiley   +1 more source