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Climate Change, Population Ageing and Public Spending: Evidence on Individual Preferences

open access: yesEcological Economics, 2018
Economic theory as well as empirical research suggest that elderly people prefer public spending on policies yielding short-term benefits. This might be bad news for policies aimed at combating climate change: while the unavoidable costs of these ...
Mark A. Andor   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Therapeutic Apheresis in Nigeria: A Multi‐Center Summary of Abstracts From the Inaugural Nigerian Society for Apheresis Scientific Meeting

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Therapeutic apheresis (TA) is an established treatment modality for hematologic, neurologic, and immunologic disorders, yet access remains severely limited in sub‐Saharan Africa. Donor apheresis, including platelet apheresis collection from healthy donors, represents an important complementary modality supporting blood product ...
Nosa Bazuaye   +33 more
wiley   +1 more source

US Public Health Neglected: Flat Or Declining Spending Left States Ill Equipped To Respond To COVID-19.

open access: yesHealth Affairs, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted concern about the integrity of the US public health infrastructure. Federal, state, and local governments spend $93 billion annually on public health in the US, but most of this spending is at the state level.
Y. N. Alfonso   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Establishing an Apheresis Medicine Program in a Resource‐Constrained Setting: A 5‐Year Experience From Lagos, Nigeria

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Establishing a comprehensive apheresis medicine program in a resource‐constrained setting presents significant structural, financial, and logistical challenges. Despite the growing clinical importance of apheresis services globally, published experience from sub‐Saharan Africa remains sparse.
Folasade Adelekan‐Popoola   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intersecting Sectors? The Connection Between Nonprofit Charities and Government Spending

open access: yesJournal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2017
In this paper, we articulate that rent-seeking behavior by nonprofit charities and budgetary discretionary behavior by public agents should lead to a positive correlation between nonprofit charity and government spending.
Deborah A. Carroll, Thad D. Calabrese
doaj   +1 more source

Probing Institutional Quality Through Ethnic Diversity, Income Inequality and Public Spending

open access: yes, 2019
Institutions play a vital role for smooth and sustained functioning of economies as well as to excel the living standard of economic agents but there is no consensus upon factors explaining the institutional quality.
G. Madni
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transferrin receptor 1‐mediated iron uptake supports thermogenic activation in human cervical‐derived adipocytes

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
In this study, we found that human cervical‐derived adipocytes maintain intracellular iron level by regulating the expression of iron transport‐related proteins during adrenergic stimulation. Melanotransferrin is predicted to interact with transferrin receptor 1 based on in silico analysis.
Rahaf Alrifai   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Income Distribution Determinants and Public Spending Efficiency [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we examine the impact of public spending, education, and institutions on income distribution in advanced economies. We also assess the efficiency of public spending in redistributing income by using a DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis ...
António Afonso   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Produtividade dos Gastos Públicos dos Estados Brasileiros. Um Estudo Empírico no Período de 1995 a 2010

open access: yesDesenvolvimento em Questão, 2016
This study aimed to identify which components of spending by brazilian states which had positive effects on economic growth, based on Devarajan, Swarrop and Zou (1996).
Rossana Guerra Sousa, Edilson Paulo
doaj  

Women's representation and public spending [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Economy, 2009
This paper studies whether the degree of women's representation in Swedish local councils affects local public expenditure patterns. To empirically address this question, I first analyze the differences in preferences between men and women expressed by elected local council representatives using survey data.
openaire   +2 more sources

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