The issue of convergence has received considerable attention within the European Union over the past decade. Convergence on key economic dimensions was a clear objective of Ireland's entry into the European Community and is now central to the admission aspirations of the current applicant countries. In this paper I outline key aspects of Ireland's economic convergence and explore the implicatio...

BACKGROUND Countries with limited resources in economic downturns often reduce government expenditures, of which spending on preventive healthcare with no apparent immediate health impact might be cut down first. This research aims to find the optimum share of preventive health expenditure to gross domestic product (GDP) and investigate the implications of preventive health services on economic...

the main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of economic growth on coefficient of cardinal welfare in iran’s economy. hence, we employ the bayesian approach and the estimation of forward and backward density functions in order to measure the effect of economic growth spillovers on the social welfare. the paper has applied the gibbs sampling algorithm which is a rigorous tool for fo...

The objective of this study is to measure the effect of global policy reforms on rice trade, prices, and economic welfare. The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations aims to increase market access, and reduce or eliminate export subsidies and trade distorting domestic price supports. Two modeling frameworks are used to estimate trade, price and economic welfare effects of policy reforms....

Economic evaluations are a form of applied welfare economics and aim to inform policy makers about the impacts on social welfare of particular policies. It is clear that in light of this aim, economic evaluations need to include all relevant societal costs and benefits related to a policy. Only then, a full welfare economic trade-off between costs and benefits can be made to facilitate welfare ...