Zeneca increases research spending

Zeneca

seals on the estuary, or collect wild mushrooms from the unspoilt countryside near Dundee. The son of a chemist who perfected the printing ink technology for the Sunday Times' first colour magazine, the young Cohen excelled in school science but also spent long hours bird-watching and pond dipping around his home on the outskirts of London. " Naively, I imagined that biochemistry would be somew...

Federal budget increases spending on applied research and development.

Worker’s Compensation in Milwaukee: Analyzing Spending Increases

Executive Summary In 2001, the City of Milwaukee spent almost $7 million on worker's compensation, a large increase from previous years. Expenditures in 1999 and 2000 had been around $5.5 million and prior to that expenditures were $4.7 million or less. Officials in the city's Department of Employee Relations and the Budget Office do not fully understand why spending on worker's compensation ha...

Monitoring Health Spending Increases: Incremental Budget Analyses Reveal Challenging Tradeoffs

With each passing decade, health care has consumed a larger share of gross domestic product (GDP) and Federal budgets. By the 2000-2004 period, society was willing to devote over 20 percent of the cumulative increase in GDP and the cumulative increase in Federal outlays towards health care. The financing challenges are expected to become more acute for private payers as well as Federal, State, ...

Infrastructure Spending in China Increases Trust in Local Government

Following the 2008/9 financial crisis, China instituted a 4 trillion RMB stimulus package that was spent mostly on infrastructure, with a particular impact at local level. The goal was to sustain economic growth and preserve social stability. We use the Asian Barometer surveys from shortly before and after the stimulus to examine its impact on public trust in government, and find a reversal of ...