Debates about decentralization raise cultural questions of identity and economic questions of redistribution and efficiency. Therefore the preferences of statewide parties regarding decentralization are related to their positions on the economic and cultural ideological dimensions. A statistical analysis using data from thirty-one countries confirms this: parties on the economic right are more ...

background:the present study compared the differences between survivals of patients with colorectal cancer according to their ethnicity adjusted for other predictors of survival. methods: in this prospective cohort study patients were followed up from definite diagnosis of colorectal cancer to death. totally, 2431 person-year follow-ups were undertaken for 1127 colorectal cancer patients once e...

With the development of population aging, social security system becomes more and more important in China. The basic old-age insurance is the most serious part of China’s social security system. Whether the basic old-age insurance system achieves its original goal is decisive for success, and we can only use scientific methods to evaluate the efficiency of the system. This paper uses the Analyt...

We make use of a new and detailed database on FDI approvals since the early 1990s to address two major issues related to FDI and regional development in India in the postreform period. First, we analyze the location choices of foreign investors. The evidence indicates that the concentration of FDI in a few relatively advanced regions may have prevented FDI effects from spreading across the Indi...

The financial intermediation–growth nexus is a widely studied topic in the literature of development economics. Deepening financial intermediation may promote economic growth by mobilizing more investments, and lifting returns to financial resources, which raises productivity. Relying on provincial panel data from China, this paper attempts to examine if regional productivity growth is accounte...

The literature on regional disparities in China is both broad and deep. Nonetheless much of its focus has been on the effects of trade liberalization and national policies toward investment in interior provinces. Few pieces have examined whether the disparities might simply be due to differences in industry mix, final demand, or even interregional trade. Using the only two newly published multi...

OBJECTIVE We describe trends in life expectancy at birth (LE) and between-country LE disparities since 1965, in Latin America and the Caribbean. METHODS & FINDINGS LE trends since 1965 are described for three geographical sub-regions: the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. LE disparities are explored using a suite of absolute and relative disparity metrics, with measurement consen...

background: it is suggested that ha-1 mismatching among hematopoietic stem cell transplanted recipients-donors is associated with acute graft-versus-host disease (agvhd). so the aim of this study was to evaluate ha-1 frequency and examine the correlation between ha-1 disparity and gvhd patients who received transplantation from a hla-identical sibling. samples and methods: the dna was extracted...

Abstract Relatedness has often been shown to have a central role in regional diversification. Knowledge flows between related industries are an important source of innovation, leading industry growth and the establishment new industries. Earlier studies focused on dynamic diversification into industries, but this study, we emphasize static diversification, that is, changes balance existing regi...