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"Japan has a healthy population compared with the rest of the world, yet the Japanese pay relatively little for medical care. This book analyzes how Japan's health-care system works and how it came into being. Although the authors discuss the drawbacks to Japan's stringent cost-…
"The main thesis of the book is that the welfare state cannot have a sustainable future, given the overburdened state budget, unless it is managed by a strategic planning process. The book deals, moreover, with the new emergence of a nonprofit private sector that feeds a kind of…
Financing terrorism
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La communauté mondiale s'est exprimée clairement : il faut mobiliser davantage de ressources pour mettre fin à l'extrême pauvreté et atténuer les effets du changement climatique. Les financements mixtes - qui mélangent différentes formes de capital - apparaissent de plus en plus…
This research paper is an analysis of Brooklyn Bridge Park, a waterfront urban green space hosting a plethora of human-centric programs. The aim of the paper is to analyze the development, history and planning process of the park. This analysis includes a design, sustainability …
Despite the impressive progress over the last two decades in which millions of people worldwide have gained first time access to improved water and sanitation infrastructure, the reality for many is that shortly after infrastructure construction the actual service received by us…
This thesis analyzes how firms make capital strucure and corporate investment decisions when there are imperfections in firms' financing activities. This thesis consists of two studies. In Chapter 2, I develop a model nesting two existing theories for why non-fundamental stock p…
This study examined the current decentralized system in Indonesia for increased disparities in educational expenditures across districts. It also examined the impact of these on the quality of education at public junior secondary education. The study used the most recently avail…
Technological advances, budgetary constraints and changes in regulatory regimes around the world have called into question the efficiency of state provision of roads infrastructure. However, the current mechanisms of franchising private toll roads around the world entail conside…
The existence of a strong agricultural base is a precondition to increased availability of food supply at reasonable prices necessary for improvement in the nutrition standards. But investment in production of agricultural crops is a sin que non of a strong agricultural base. Bu…
Terrorism scholars have posited that 90 percent of terrorist groups survive less than a year, and half of those which remain will not live to see the ten year-mark. This dissertation addresses the variety of means through which terrorist groups seek to acquire, move and store mo…