Many developing countries such as Palestine are simultaneously fiscally limited and acutely water constrained. It is vital that investments in water related infrastructure provide maximum social welfare per dollar spent. Furthermore, infrastructure must be designed to perform we…
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This dissertation advances this literature on health care demand in lower income nations on several fronts. The first essay focuses on multinomial provider choice. It begins with a theoretical model where consumers make discrete choices among health care facility alternatives in…
In most Sub-Saharan African countries, reliance on government financing for health care services has become increasingly untenable due to the fiscal crisis of the African state. International assistance for such services has also fallen since the global recession of the eighties…
Economists since Engel have recognized that the size and composition of a household effect its demand for goods and services. In the literature to date, the number and ages of children have been the main demographic variables that have been incorporated into the analysis of dema…
This dissertation analyzes the demand for M2 in Malaysia under the cointegration/error-correction approach using monthly observations from August 1973 to December 1995. The Johansen (1988) and Johansen and Juselius (1990) cointegration technique is applied to evaluate the long-r…
Integrated conservation and development (ICD) has become a dominant paradigm in management of tropical forests valued for both global ecological and local livelihood services. This dissertation examines ecotourism as a potential strategy for ICD, in a case study of Siberut Islan…
The objective of this study is to measure and compare the major factors influencing consumers' use of Public medical services and of Private medical services: Private doctor and Private nurse/paramedic/midwife, using a sample of adults from 1993 Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFL…