Note: This is a non-technical policy brief based on "Competition and Productivity Growth in South Africa" Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative (ASGI-SA), which seeks to consolidate the gains of post-transition economic stability and accelerate growth in order to create employment and improve the livelihoods of all South Africans. For more information and the entire series of papers, visit t...

In this brief note we provide a new analysis of the transient behavior of the clear-a-fraction policy of Perkins and Kumar. In addition, we show that a new “clear-average-oldest-buffer” policy and a “random part selection” policy (of which “first-come-first-served” is a special case) are stable. Finally, we introduce a stable and efficient “stream modifier” that can be used to obtain network le...

This Issue Brief was prepared for The Commonwealth Fund/John F. Kennedy School of Government Bipartisan Congressional Health Policy Conference, January 15-17, 2004.

This Issue Brief was prepared for The Commonwealth Fund/John F. Kennedy School of Government Bipartisan Congressional Health Policy Conference, January 15-17, 2004.

This Issue Brief was prepared for The Commonwealth Fund/John F. Kennedy School of Government Bipartisan Congressional Health Policy Conference, January 15-17, 2004.

Arvind Subramanian has been a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since April 2007. He also holds a joint appointment at the Center for Global Development and is a professorial lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. He served at the International Monetary Fund from 1992 to 2007, most recently as assistant director in the research department (2004–07). He worked at...

In March 2009 members of the research, policy and practice communities in the fields of ageing and disability came together in Barcelona for the first international conference on bridging knowledge in long-term care and support. This paper presents a brief snapshot of some of the key themes and ideas that emerged during three days of presentation and debate on methods, policy and practice.

In this policy brief, we estimate and document the regional magnitudes of charges associated with hospitalizations due to ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) in rural hospitals. This research will inform policy makers about the regional magnitudes of rural preventable hospitalizations and the associated potential savings in hospital resource utilization when rural patients receive time...