Escaping the metric-driven governance trap in global health: how DALYs and coverage indicators mislead policymakers in LMICs [PDF]
Every year, billions of dollars in global health financing are allocated on the basis of a single number a disability-adjusted life year, a coverage rate, or a composite index generated thousands of miles from the communities that will bear the ...
Yusuf Hared Abdi +4 more
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Multilateral indices in official price statistics and a new additive splicing method
AbstractA substitution of the traditional data sources allows National Statistical Institutes to collect large samples of product items with corresponding prices recorded over more frequent time periods. For some product categories, a frequent replacement of product items requires a dynamic approach to define a product sample that can be achieved by a ...
Maria Vojtkova +2 more
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Clinical patterns and predictors of trauma-related mortality over 13 years: a retrospective analysis from a Level 1 National trauma center [PDF]
Background Qatar is one of six neighboring countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council region that form a political and economic alliance to foster multilateral cooperation.
Ayman El-Menyar +15 more
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PERSPECTIVES FOR THE USE OF BIOMASS GENERATED BY SOME MISCANTHUS GENOTYPES IN THE PRODUCTION OF DENSIFIED SOLID BIOFUELS [PDF]
Miscanthus is a Poaceae family perennial crop of C4 bioenergy characterized by the multilateral use potential, including the production of biofuels.
DARADUDA, Nicolae, MARIAN, Grigore
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A Financial, Governance and Social Responsibility Evaluation Comprehensive Model (FGCSM) based on Six Approaches and New Perspective of Performance Evaluation [PDF]
The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive model of financial, governance and the social responsibility evaluation of firms on a new perspective of performance evaluation.
Nesa Heshmat +2 more
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Assessing state compliance with multilateral climate transparency requirements: ‘Transparency Adherence Indices’ and their research and policy implications [PDF]
Transparency is increasingly central to multilateral climate governance. In this article, we undertake one of the first systematic assessments of the nature and extent of compliance with transparen...
Romain Weikmans, Aarti Gupta
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Potential reasons for CPI chain drift bias while using electronic transaction data
Scanner data mean electronic transaction data that specify product prices and their expenditures obtained from supermarkets’ IT systems by scanning bar codes (i.e. GTIN or SKU). Scanner data are a relatively new and cheap data source for the calculation
Jacek Białek +1 more
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Impacts of Global Multilateral Trade Liberalization on Sustainability Indicators [PDF]
A computable general equilibrium model was used to analyze trade liberalization impacts on sustainability. On the basis of multilateral trade negotiations in Doha Round, partial trade liberalization (PTL) and deep trade liberalization (DTL) scenarios were designed to assess their impacts on economic, social and environmental dimensions of ...
J. ZHANG +2 more
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A Multi-criteria optimization proposal for aid allocation: combining donor and recipient interests
It is well known that donors pursue different objectives (altruistic objectives or those based on recipient, and donor interests) in granting their aid.
Yolanda Muñoz-Ocaña +3 more
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PriceIndices – a New R Package for Bilateral and Multilateral Price Index Calculations [PDF]
The methodology of price indices dedicated to scanner data is broad, multifaceted, and still contains many open problems. The main challenges include choosing the index formula and the time window width in multilateral methods, as well as determining ...
Jacek Białek
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