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Healthy, Educated and Wealthy: Is the Welfare State Really Harmful for Growth? [PDF]

In this paper, we study how public and private expenditures in health and education affect economic growth by their influence on peoples health, abilities, skills and knowledge.
Daniel Montolio Estivill, Gilberto Turati, Sergio Beraldo   +2 more
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The association between health literacy, private health insurance, and medical expenditure in South Korea

BMC Health Services Research
Health literacy (HL) is crucial for effective healthcare utilization, but its relationship with private health insurance (PHI) enrollment and medical expenditure in South Korea remains unexplored.This study aimed to examine the associations between HL, PHI enrollment, and annual out-of-pocket (OOP) medical expenditure in South Korea's universal ...
Jeehye Lee, Hye Sook Min, Dong-Hee Ryu
openaire   +3 more sources

Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing asset indices [PDF]

This paper compares how results using various methods to construct asset indices match results using per capita expenditures. The analysis shows that inferences about inequalities in education, health care use, fertility, child mortality, as well as ...
Filmer, Deon, Scott, Kinnon
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How Business Cycles Affect the Healthcare Sector: A Cross-country Investigation [PDF]

, 2016
The long-term relationship between the general economy and healthcare expenditures has been extensively researched, to explain differences in healthcare spending between countries, but the midterm (i.e., business cycle) perspective has been overlooked ...
Barros, Baxter, Baxter, Berkmen, Blomqvist, Clemente, Deb, Di Matteo, Fatás, Gerdtham, Gerdtham, Gerdtham, Getzen, Hansen, Heerde, Herwartz, Hitiris, Hodrick, Katona, Lamey, Lamey, Lane, Lane, Liu, McCoskey, McInerney, Miller, Narayan, Neumayer, Newhouse, OECD, Pauwels, Rosenthal, Ruhm, Ruhm, Ruhm, Steenkamp, Strine, Stuckler, Tefft   +39 more
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Traceability of Agri‐Food Products: The Key to Conscious Trade

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globalization and growing concerns about sustainability have led to improvements in product traceability, quality, and sustainability. Traceability contributes to environmental protection and supports sustainable development by fostering transparency in agricultural practices and encouraging the responsible use of resources.
Scarlett Queen Almeida Bispo, Fernanda Aparecida Silva, Michelle Márcia Viana Martins, Marcelo José Braga Nonnenberg, Ruan da Silva Vianna, Carla Cristina Passos Cruz   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wykorzystanie metody ubezpieczeniowej w systemach finansowania ochrony zdrowia – analiza zróżnicowania w krajach Unii Europejskiej

Problemy Zarządzania, 2015
The aim of the paper is to identify the role and functions of the voluntary private insurance in the countries that have different systems of financing the health care, either the Beveridge model or Bismarck model.
Teresa Czerwińska
doaj   +1 more source

Healthy, educated and wealthy : Is the welfare state really harmful for growth? [PDF]

, 2005
In this paper, we study how public and private expenditures in health and education affect economic growth by their influence on people's health, abilities, skills and knowledge.
Beraldo, Sergi, Montolio, Daniel, Turati, Gilberto   +2 more
core  

Assessing Haitian Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Aflatoxin‐Compliant Peanut Butter in the Informal Market

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, Stevens Azima, Maurice Doyon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Population Aging and Travel Demand: Evidence from Taiwan

Logistics, Supply Chain, Sustainability and Global Challenges
This study employed a recursive mixed-process model to analyze how sociodemographic characteristics affected household transportation expenditures and car ownership in Taiwan.
Huang Wen-Hsiu
doaj   +1 more source