BACKGROUND A dramatic increase in healthcare expenditures is a major health policy concern worldwide. Understanding factors that underlie the growth in healthcare expenditures is essential to assist decision-makers in finding best policies to manage healthcare costs. We aimed to examine the determinants of healthcare spending in Iran over the periods of 1978-2011. METHODS A time series analys...

Impairments in social relatedness and communication, repetitive behaviors, and stereotypic abnormal movement patterns characterize autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). It is clear that while genetic factors are important to the pathogenesis of ASDs, mercury exposure can induce immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions similar to traits defining or associated with ASDs. The ...

One of the objectives of agricultural development in Botswana is the increase of agricultural productivity in both arable and livestock production in order to increase farm incomes and thus help to make agriculture a sustainable activity. This paper looks at the challenges that Botswana faces in meeting this objective while minimizing any land degradation that may accompany the process of incre...

The contribution of Islamic banking towards economic growth remains debatable amongst academicians and practitioners. This study investigates the relationship between banks’ financing in Indonesia which is largest Muslim population country. adopts Autoregressive-Distributed Lag (ARDL) utilizes time-series quarterly data from 2011Q1 to 2019Q3. uses four predictors: deposit ratio; inflation; gros...

The research aims to examine factors influencing the performance of banks in EMEs by placing focus on USA’s banking sector performance. study also seeks establish ways and policies which can be used enhance developed markets economies’ together with their financial economic growth development. Expectations are that this will knowledge understanding regarding significant variables development ma...

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