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Background: Applications and admission processes across the globe have been unified using central application systems (CAS). However, the primary CAS in South Africa (SA), including the Central Applications Office and t...

Abstract The world is off track six years to the 2030 deadline for attaining the sustainable development goals and universal health coverage. This is particularly evident in Africa’s armed conflict-affected and humanit...

Timely access to public healthcare is fundamental human rights and a key measure of social equity. In Thailand, transportation barriers especially in rural and underserved areas continue to restrict equitable access to m...

The research examines the causal relationship between supply chain efficiency and sustainable financial performance based on the evidence from the literature dealing with a transition from financial decision-making bas...

Objectives Social prescribing has provided a lifeline to people, capturing the importance of quality support offered via community connections. It has not been exempt from difficulties, resulting in low-quality evidence ...

The Feature for this issue Reflections on Student Persistence has been prepared by Professor Vincent Tinto, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University, United States of America (USA) and a longtim...

The constant use of sodium N-methyldithiocarbamate (metam sodium: MS) in protected agriculture in México has attracted the attention of researchers and producers on their effects on the environment. The objective of thi...

Abstract Background Air pollution poses a significant threat to global public health. While broad mitigation policies exist, an understanding of the economic consequences, both in terms of health benefits and mitigation ...

Abstract Background Agroforestry, the intentional integration of trees or other woody perennials with crops or livestock in production systems, is being widely promoted as a conservation and development tool to help meet...

Abstract Background Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, MSK pain and MSK injury/trauma are the largest contributors to the global burden of disability, yet global guidance to arrest the rising disability burden is lacking....

This article discusses: the doctrinal content of the group of ideas known as ‘new public management’(NPM); the intellectual provenance of those ideas; explanations for their apparent persuasiveness in the 1980 s; and...

There is strong evidence that people exploit their bargaining power in competitive markets but not in bilateral bargaining situations. There is also strong evidence that people exploit free-riding opportunities in volunt...

ABSTRACT We use data on ownership structures of large corporations in 27 wealthy economies to identify the ultimate controlling shareholders of these firms. We find that, except in economies with very good shareholder pr...

ABSTRACT Using a sample of 49 countries, we show that countries with poorer investor protections, measured by both the character of legal rules and the quality of law enforcement, have smaller and narrower capital market...

ABSTRACT Using a sample free of survivor bias, I demonstrate that common factors in stock returns and investment expenses almost completely explain persistence in equity mutual funds' mean and risk‐adjusted returns. He...

ABSTRACT Two easily measured variables, size and book‐to‐market equity, combine to capture the cross‐sectional variation in average stock returns associated with market β , size, leverage, book‐to‐market equit...

Materias / palabras clave: Equity financing; Stock (firearms); Finance; Business; Equity (law); Debt; Internal financing; Cash flow; Corporate finance; Investment decisions; Debt financing; External financing

El objetivo de este trabajo es vincular teoría y política económica en el campo de la economía del bienestar; en particular, las cuestiones vinculadas con el compromiso ('trade-off') entre eficiencia y equidad. El te...

El autor despliega su análisis en torno a la pregunta: El no alineamiento en contra de quien? Respondiendo a lo largo del artículo que el surgimiento de la política de no alineamiento aparece como un marco económico ...

Materias / palabras clave: general internal medicine, clinical medicine, health equity, health disparities, internal medicine, medicine; Medicine: Internal medicine