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All opinions are not equal: Toward a consensual approach to the development of drug policy
Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 812-828, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Drug policy has been subjected to much scrutiny from different stakeholder groups who present sometimes very different opinions on solutions to address a problem. Reconciling such differences, that are underpinned by both anecdotal and empirical evidence, is a priority yet to be fully achieved.
Gabriel T. W. Wong, Matthew Manning
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PLoS ONE, 2022 This paper constructs a double difference model (DID) based on the China Private Enterprise Survey (CPES) data over the period 1995–2019, combined with the 2005 national census data and considering the policy shock of the implementation of the Chinese ...
Chuyao Deng, Yang Liu, Doudou Gu
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Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster [PDF]
California Management Review, vol. 51, no. 2, Winter 2009, 170-193, 2013 The Economist recently reported that infrastructure spending is the largest it is ever been as a share of world GDP. With $22 trillion in projected investments over the next ten years in emerging economies alone, the magazine calls it the "biggest investment boom in history." The efficiency of infrastructure planning and execution is therefore ...
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Housing the homeless: How revisiting the 1940s assists the struggle
Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 798-811, December 2022., 2022 Abstract A major obstacle in the political work of housing the homeless is convincing voters and lawmakers that housing is a right and should be available to all without conditions. This paper seeks to assist that project by showing that the tension between rights and conditions has a history. It focusses on the pivotal 1940s, which saw the first major
Anne O'Brien
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Effect of military spending on private investment in Nigeria: does a crowding-out effect exist?
European Journal of Government and Economics, 2022 This study adopts ARDL and VAR estimation methods to examine whether military spending crowd-out or crowd-in private investment in Nigeria. We use the data that covers the period from 1970 to 2019.
Isiaka Akande Raifu
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Incentives for Private Industrial Investment in historical perspective: the case of industrial promotion and investment promotion in Uruguay (1974-2010) [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Using as a central instrument a new database, resulting from a compilation of historical administrative records, which covers the period 1974-2010, we can have new evidence on how industrial companies used tax benefits, and claim that these are decisive for the investment decision of the Uruguayan industrial companies during that period.
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Private Investment and Political Institutions [PDF]
Economics & Politics, 2002 Recent research has demonstrated a negative link between macroeconomic and political uncertainty and levels of private investment across countries. This raises the question whether certain types of government institutions might help reduce this uncertainty.
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Investment Timing and Technological Breakthroughs [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 We study the optimal investment policy of a firm facing both technological and cash-flow uncertainty. At any point in time, the firm can decide to invest in a standalone technology or to wait for a technological breakthrough. Breakthroughs occur when market conditions become favorable enough, exceeding a certain threshold value that is ex-ante unknown ...
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective The study objective was to estimate the budget impact of funding a standardized education and exercise therapy program, Good Life with osteoArthritis in Denmark (GLA:D) for people with hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA) waiting for total joint replacement (TJR) consultation in a universal publicly insured health care system in Canada.
Darren R. Mazzei +4 more
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Roaming Performance Analysis and Comparison between Wi-Fi and Private Cellular Network [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Private network deployment is gaining momentum in warehouses, retail, automation, health care, and many such use cases to guarantee mission-critical services with less latency. Guaranteeing the delay-sensitive application in Wi-Fi is always challenging due to the nature of unlicensed spectrum.
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