Medicines constitute a substantial proportion of out-of-pocket (OOP) expenses in Indian households. In order to address this issue, the Government of India launched the Jan Aushadhi (Medicine for the Masses) Scheme (JAS) to provide cheap generic medicines to the patients (http://janaushadhi.gov.in/about_jan_aushadhi.html). These medicines are provided through the Jan Aushadhi stores established...

Two provisions of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program--the Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS) and Impairment Related Work Expenses (IRWE)--can have the implicit result of compensating SSI recipients for work expenses they incur. That is, PASS and IRWE can, in effect, shift all or some of a working SSI recipient's expenses from the recipient to the SSI program. This article descri...

This study explores the role of issuance expenses in explaining the fall in stock value for OTC stock offerings that raise cash for debt reduction purposes. It estimates that over half of the sample's −2.79% two-day fall in stock value can be accounted for by issuance expenses when using a lower bound measure of issuance expenses. This estimate contrasts with the one-fifth estimate suggested by...

FOCUS REVIEW Japan's health care system should be the envy of the world. Japan consistently places near the top of the World Health Organization's overall health rankings, and does so while spending the smallest proportion of its GDP on health care than any member of the G7 (8% in 2004; Canada spent 9.9%), making it perhaps the world's best health care bargain. This accomplishment can be traced...

This study aimed to examine the influence of planning, management commitment, and human resources competency on goods services budget absorption Cilacap Local Government, Central Java. uses primary data by distributing questionnaires head working units in regency with a number respondents as many 51 people during June-July 2020. Data analysis was performed using SPSS (Statistical Package for So...

In this study, per-person municipal expenditures were modeled as a function of six demographic and income-related variables, first using a robust linear regression model (LM), and second using a generalized additive model (GAM). A comparison of the two models revealed that the GAM provided more accurate predictions, and therefore we recommend for the client to use the GAM as the basis for predi...

Long study terms and a large number of students who do not successfully finish their academic programs are damaging the national economies to a large tune. In addition, personal study guidance to attenuate these problems is very expensive, too. Misunderstanding of examination regulations and a possible adversely balanced supply and demand of courses can be reasons for increasing average study t...