Equity Issues in Work/Life Balance Programmes

Nursing migration: issues of equity and balance.

Framework for monitoring equity in access and health systems issues in antiretroviral therapy Programmes in southern Africa.

Universal provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART), while feasible, is expensive. In light of this limitation, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched the 3 × 5 initiative, to provide ART to 3 million people by the end of the year 2005. In Southern Africa, large-scale provision of ART will likely be achieved through fragile public health systems. ART programmes should therefore be dev...

Equity Issues and Offering Dilution

This study investigates the effect on stock prices of seasoned equity offerings. The results demonstrate that the announcement of equity otlerings reduces stock prices significantly. For industrial issues, regression results indicate that announcement day price reduction is significantly and negatively related to the size of the equity offering. The results appear not to be explained by changes...

Addressing equity issues in monitoring and evaluation

The ‘worst-off’ have been targeted in international development interventions for decades, including the current push towards evaluating progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using an equity-focused and gender-responsive lens (see, for example, Bamberger and Segone 2011; UNICEF 2011). Even in developed nations, the rhetoric of politicians, organisations and programs has...

Equity Issues , Tobacco , and the Poor