Background The establishment of the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), which removed the necessity for cost-effectiveness as a criterion for drugs access and expedited access to nonNICE appraised drugs, has significantly changed prescribing of cancer drugs for terminally ill cancer patients in the NHS. Neither clinicians nor the public have a preference for spending money on cancer over other disease sta...

Abstract My comment on Weber and Staples (Digit Financ, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42521-022-00064-8 , 2022) elaborates an economic perspective of their “programmable money” proposal. While claims issued tendered for goods services resemble money, a number issues must be resolved before this innovation is feasible as money in analog trade or digital finance. These include secondary tradability, p...

"The most important thing is to have access to risk capital. Markets are in place, but you need money pools for people who just have a brilliant idea," – Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google “Universities spin out technology companies at an ever increasing rate but the need is for a much increased venture capital pot to get them started.” – Sir Roy Anderson, Chief Scientific Advisor, UK Ministry of Defens...

This study contributes to pioneering literature on the impact of mobile phone-based money transfer, especially in agriculture. It provides information regarding financial intermediation to the excluded through the use of new generation Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools, especially the mobile phone. The study employs propensity score matching technique to examine the impact of MMT...

There is strong evidence that monetary transfers within networks of family members and friends are central to household risk sharing strategies and potentially to informal credit systems as well. In recent years, mobile money services that allow individuals to transfer purchasing power via short messaging service (SMS) have captured the attention of researchers, in part because they have the po...

the objective of this study is to derive a money demand function compatible with the islamic economic rules, i.e., prohibition of reba. this rule, evidently eliminates the loan market from the economy.therefore, we propose that the islamic financial markets could link the real and nominal sectors of the economy and provide the information needed by both the financial intermediaries and the cent...

The objective was to study male and female rats exposed to Activity-Based Anorexia (ABA; simultaneous exposition to food restriction and free access to an activity wheel) under two conditions of sound attenuation, by means of different arrangements of wheels (standard versus isolation) in the laboratory room. Regardless of the sound attenuation condition, all but one male and one female with ac...

This study aims to examine the impact of financial literacy on individual investors’ stock market participation (SMP). The data were collected through a survey-structured questionnaire. paper has applied descriptive as well causal research design effect (SMP) in Nepal. Investors’ SMP is dependent variable and literacy-related variables; knowledge, behavior, attitude are considered explanatory v...