Can Zakat Charity Help Reduce Economic Inequality?

Can CAM therapies help reduce antibiotic resistance?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the consumption of 235 million doses of antibiotics in 2001. It is estimated that 20-50 percent of these were unnecessarily prescribed for viral infections. Bacteria that antibiotics have controlled in the past are increasingly developing resistance to these drugs. Today, virtually all important bacterial infections in the United Sta...

Can Progressive State Taxes Reduce Inequality

Can Progressive State Taxes Reduce Inequality? Andrew Leigh Economics Division Research School of Social Sciences Australian National University [email protected] www.andrewleigh.com October 2004 Can income taxes levied at a state or regional level affect the distribution of gross incomes? Or will workers merely move between regions, causing pre-tax wages to adjust? This question is relev...

Can subsidising job-related training reduce inequality?∗

A well-established stylised fact is that employer provided job-related training raises productivity and wages. Using UK data, we further find that job-related training is positively related to subsidies aimed at reducing training costs for employers. We also find that there is a positive, albeit quantitatively small, relationship between wage inequality and training inequality in the UK. Motiva...

Redefining staff roles and responsibilities can help reduce turnover time.

Meeting the information needs of charity trustees: can Enterprise Performance Management Systems help?

Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) have multiple purposes, i.e. financial stability as well as their mission, often operate in complicated circumstances and report to multiple stakeholders. This paper shows that information is not being used as effectively as it could be for regulation and performance management in this sector. A preliminary study of secondary cases indicates that Enterprise Per...