British Journal of General Practice, October 2007 support my view I am concerned that the increasing numbers of prescribers will inevitably lead to more antibiotic use. Reducing diagnostic uncertainty would be of great benefit for, as Fleming says, ‘both individual patient management and for surveillance’. The cost and time implications have been discussed for many years, but it remains an impo...

This paper shows that growth and income distribution dynamics are closely linked through occupation, financial intermediation, and education, using the micro data from Thailand. The compositional change of these characteristics accounts for half of the Thai inequality increase and forty percent of the Thai growth and poverty reduction during 1976-1996. Financial deepening and educational expans...

We investigate the long-term effect of cash assistance for beneficiaries and their children by following up, after four decades, with participants in the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Treated families in this randomized experiment received thousands of dollars per year in extra government benefits for three or five years in the 1970s. Using administrative data from the Social Se...

P eople’s business credit program (KUR) has been launched to alleviate poverty through provision of micro financing to micro entrepreneurs in Indonesia This study aims to estimate the impact of KUR program using cross-sectional data and propensity score matching technique (PSM). The survey was conducted on 332 household entrepreneurs, consisting of 155 KUR receivers and 177 non-KUR r...

U rban poverty has long been a concern of urban and development debates, and has been an important focus in social science research. Informal settlement in Mashhad city is highlighted because of its wide spreading and severity. This study aimed to determine the causes of urban poverty in informal settlement regions. The data were collected from household level questionnaire in 2016 a...

T his study investigates the impact of poverty, which is the direct effect of recent economic changes, on Iranians mental health to shed more light on the poverty and mental health nexus in developing countries. For the purpose of this study, we examine the existence of a possible association between poverty and mental health in urban districts of Iran by applying a double hurdle app...

Combination of several interferograms of a same area, each having its own ambiguity of altitude, allows producing a combined interferogram with either a better signal to noise ratio or a lower ambiguity of altitude, unreachable from a single interferometric pair. InSAR baseline combination by summation of interferograms allows reaching peculiar equivalent baselines while increasing signal to no...

In this paper we use a multidimensional framework to characterise child poverty in the UK. We examine the interdependencies amongst the di¤erent dimensions of multidimensional poverty, and the relationship of multidimensional poverty with income poverty. We also explore the links between multidimensional poverty, income poverty, and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development. Our …nding...