Previous work on the effect of taxes on foreign direct investment (FDI) focused primarily on capital income taxes. We investigate the proposition that other forms of taxation may also deter FDI. We use tax ratios, i.e., average effective tax rates, on consumption, labor and capital income for a panel of 25 OECD countries from 1975-2006. We find that increases in relative tax rates on capital in...

This paper proposes a model aiming at decomposing the Net Final Value of project under certainty. It makes use systemic outlook: investor's net worth is regarded as dynamic system whose structure changes over time. On this basis, profitability index presented, here named Systemic Added (SVA), which lends itself to periodic decomposition: shares formally translate economic concept residual incom...

BACKGROUND For low income and uninsured populations, safety net clinics are an important source of health care, including preventive services such as mammography screening. However, little is known about how well breast health is coordinated within the safety net clinic environment and what barriers patients encounter. METHODS A needs assessment was conducted among eight community-based safet...

A stochastic dynamic model of reproduction and a deterministic cow-herd economic simulation model were used to evaluate how management decisions and reproductive performance interact to influence net income in a cow-calf operation (1,000 cows) for 1 yr of production. The stochastic model was used to determine herd performance when length of breeding season (45, 70, or 120 d) interacted with thr...

Although globalization has created ample opportunities and spaces to share experiences and information, the diffusion of ideas, especially in global health, is primarily influenced by the unequal distribution of economic, political and scientific powers around the world. These ideas in global health are generally rooted in High-Income Countries (HICs), and then reach Low- and Middle-Income Coun...

the main objective of this study was to investigate the environmental impacts of cotton production in golestan province of iran using life cycle assessment methodology. the data used in the study were obtained from cotton farmers with face-to-face questionnaire method during 2011-2012. the questionnaires included total inputs of cotton production in the region and yield weight. environmental im...