Zoonotic diseases will maintain a high level of public policy attention in the coming decades. From the spectre of a global pandemic to anxieties over agricultural change, urbanization, social inequality and threats to natural ecosystems, effectively preparing and responding to endemic and emerging diseases will require technological, institutional and social innovation. Much current discussion...

BACKGROUND A multi-sectoral response is advocated by international organisations as a good strategy to address the multiple drivers and impact of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), and was historically mandated as a condition of funding. In March 2017, the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) launched the latest 5 year National Strategic Plan (NS...

It has been shown that over a 20 year period of time the OECD countries have converged in terms of their aggregate technological effort, but this trend covers diverging patterns of sectoral innovative activities even for the countries at the forefront of the " convergence club " (Archibugi and Pianta 1994). This evidence supports the relevance of the National Systems of Innovation (NSI) perspec...

Sectors are the spinal column of the public sector, offering an orderly and pragmatic way of arranging public sector affairs and dicing up resources. The boundaries between them, however , are more arbitrary than is commonly acknowledged. This has become more apparent in recent years as a number of issues which don't fit comfortably in any of the ascribed boxes have risen up the global developm...

Background Food insecurity underlies and compounds many of the development issues faced by remote Indigenous communities in Australia. Multi-sector approaches offer promise to improve food security. We assessed the feasibility of a novel multi-sector approach to enhance community food security in remote Indigenous Australia. Method A longitudinal comparative multi-site case study, the Good Fo...

Although the “country runs” of the Asian crisis stopped at the Chinese border, their effects nonetheless included a realignment of real exchange rates and a rise in the risk premium demanded of investments in China. To examine alternative Chinese policy responses, this paper introduces a multi-country, multi-commodity comparative static macroeconomic model. Simulations suggest that, although th...

Recent research has updated a 1998 study of the effects of traffic congestion on logistical efficiency in the UK. It has focused on the contribution of congestion to unreliability across nine sectors. The relationship between traffic flow and transit time variability has been modeled using data from the Highways Agency and speed-flow ratios. An analysis of transport KPI survey data and an inter...

We investigate a multi-factor extension of the asymptotic single risk factor (ASRF) model that underlies the capital charges of the “Basel II Accord”. In this extended model, it is still possible to derive closed-form solutions for the risk contributions to Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall. As an application of the risk contribution formulae we introduce a new concept for a diversification ...

This paper empirically examines how sectoral co-movement are correlated with trade credit usage in a multi-region setting. Extending the models Shea (2002) and Raddatz (2010), we develop framework that captures impact of on between sectors within country cross countries separately. Using Multi-Regional Input-Output Table developed by Asian Development bank, assemble dataset consisting 14 manufa...

With this inquiry, we seek to develop a disaggregated version of the post-Keynesian approach to economic growth, by showing that indeed it can be treated as a particular case of the Pasinettian model of structural change and economic expansion. By relying upon vertical integration it becomes possible to carry out the analysis initiated by Kaldor (1956) and Robinson (1956, 1962), and followed by...