Playing Host Since 1948: Jordan’s Refugee Policies and Faith-Based Charity

Drug-eluting coronary stents: faith and hope, but no charity.

Commentary All editorial matter in CMAJ represents the opinions of the authors and not necessarily those of the Canadian Medical Association. J udging from the large number of publications on the cost-effectiveness of drug-eluting coronary stents, there is an emerging international consensus that the price tag for the 2 commercially available drug-eluting stents is excessive (approximately $150...

The incidental parameter problem since 1948

This paper was written to mark the 50th anniversary of Neyman and Scott's Econometrica paper de"ning the incidental parameter problem. It surveys the history both of the paper and of the problem in the statistics and econometrics literature. ( 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved. JEL classixcation: B23; C10

Environmental Conflict Between Refugee and Host Communities*

Since the mid-1950s, the majority of violent conflicts have been intrastate, relatively small in scale and located in developing countries (Gleditsch et al., 2002). The 1990s saw a growing concern that at least some of these conflicts may be linked to environmental issues. The evidence for this linkage is heavily contested. Much of the evidence comes from case studies (e.g. Homer-Dixon, 1999), ...

Faith (healing), hope and charity at the FDA: the politics of AIDS drug trials.

Evolution of WHO policies for tuberculosis control, 1948-2001.

We examine the evolution of WHO managerial policies for tuberculosis control during 1948-2001 to provide a new framework that will accelerate control expansion in the near future. In the first period (1948-63), a vertical approach to tuberculosis control was the policy adopted by WHO and the international community. However, although this approach was successful in more-developed countries, it ...