a) Most regulatory functions of local government are prescribed by central govenment, and this is often done with little guidance that would ensure consistency or good outcomes; b) Increasing regulation prescribed by central government, without compensatory financial consideration. Local government is therefore often left to fund such regulations through rates or user charges; c) At the same ti...

The establishment of a revolving drug fund project in Viet Nam is described and the factors responsible for its success are considered. As well as being a tool for cost recovery a revolving drug fund can serve as an entry point for strengthening health care and improving health security at local and district level.

Local economic development to achieve increased welfare, encourage growth through the use of village funds. One villages that needs be developed is Panji Village, Buleleng Regency. The local community has potential and resources, most people work in agricultural sector, so order optimize funds, resources develop economies based on funds creating sustainable growth. Through government water faci...

Consistent with Protestants (Catholics) being more (less) risk-averse than the general population, we find that mutual funds located in regions with low Protestant (or high Catholic) population have higher total and idiosyncratic return volatilities. These higher volatilities are driven by portfolio under-diversification and aggressive interim trading, rather than overweighting risky (local) st...

Case No. 1.?Sarcoma of the left choroid and lipoma of the left parotid gland. Operation ? Recovery. Govindasammv, son of Venkatasiimmy, of Cliingleput, a child, 3 years of age, Hindu, was admitted into the Local Fund Hospital, Cliingleput, on 16th December 1892, for sarcoma of the left choroid and lipoma of the left parotid aland. The parents stated that, six months prior to admission into hosp...

i Acknowledgements First and foremost I would like to thank my advisor Jean-Paul Doignon, without whom the present text would not lie before your eyes. Jean-Paul introduced me to the world of research and taught me a lot, from the day we started working on genome rearrangement problems, which were the subject of my Master's Thesis and which he also supervised. I would like to thank him for bein...

This case study is the fourth of five looking at the influence of culture on fund raising in the local affiliates of an international nonprofit organization. The Deutscher Berufsverband für Pflegeberufe (DBfK), the German affiliate of the International Council of Nurses, reflects many of the fund-raising practices common to German nonprofit organizations. Historically, German nonprofit organiza...

Does task significance increase job performance? Correlational designs and confounded manipulations have prevented researchers from assessing the causal impact of task significance on job performance. To address this gap, 3 field experiments examined the performance effects, relational mechanisms, and boundary conditions of task significance. In Experiment 1, fundraising callers who received a ...