BACKGROUND While the demand for health services keep escalating at the grass roots or rural areas of China, a substantial portion of healthcare resources remain stagnant in the more developed cities and this has entrenched health inequity in many parts of China. At its conception, China's Deepen Medical Reform started in 2012 was intended to flush out possible disparities and promote a more equ...

ATM networks are expected to accommodate a wide range of users including some who can tolerate a certain amount of cell loss and/or delay. There are also likely to be some users who can modify their tra c inputs in response to feedback signals from the network. We propose a feedback scheme to increase network e ciency by taking advantage of this exibility. Our scheme is based on economic princi...

This paper identifies key political and technical issues involved in the development of an appropriate resource allocation and budgetary system for the public health sector, using experience gained in the Province of Balochistan, Pakistan. The resource allocation and budgetary system is a critical, yet often neglected, component of any decentralization policy. Current systems are often based on...

The analysis presented in this paper is constructed to determine the pattern of resource allocations among competing individuals of the same and/or different species in some defined habitat. Competing individuals have at their disposal various activities which can be run at different intensities and consume or produce resources in the habitat linearly. The linearity of resource utilization rest...

In this article, we make three contributions: i) wealth is the correct linear indicator of welfare (defined as the present value of future utilities) if population is constant, ii) there is no need to make assumption of an optimal economy and by using the abstract notion of a resource allocation mechanism, it is possible to develop intertemporal welfare economics in imperfect economies, iii) wi...

demands are directly related to participation, the other element in political development. Regardless of the form or the mechanism, the essence is to allow the people to have a role in electing their representatives through whom they can, or believe they can, have some say in the process of resource allocation. To be sure, there is

BACKGROUND Over the past three decades, a limited range of market like mechanisms have been introduced into the hierarchically structured English National Health Service ('NHS'), which is a nationally tax funded, budget limited healthcare system, with access to care for all, producing structures known as a quasi market. Recently, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 ('HSCA') has been enacted, in...

This study shows that China’s post-1949 state-led industrialization has closely followed an underlying path that began in the late nineteenth century. It was initiated by pressing national defence needs and has since been motivated by the same and strong incentives for a faster catch-up with the West despite radical regime shifts. Government determined or influenced resource allocation benefite...

Behaviors recruit multiple, mutually substitutable types of cognitive resources (e.g., data acquisition and memorization in comparative visual search), and the allocation of resources is performed in a cost-optimizing way. If costs associated with each type of resource are manipulated, e.g., by varying the complexity of the items studied or the visual separation of the arrays to be compared, ac...