The article “Identifying Health Problems Using a Novel Triage Approach to Child Health Assessments” by Bezem et al is interesting for highlighting just how different patterns of health care delivery and utilization are across Western industrialized nations.1 In the specific arena of child health, different norms and expectations for health care services exist for both parents and health care pr...

In this paper we consider a model with two industrialized countries and immigrants that come from “the rest of the world.” The countries are distinguished on the basis of three parameters: population size, bias toward immigrants, and production complementarity between native population and immigrants. We consider a non-cooperative game where each country makes a strategic choice of its immigrat...

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The strategic pillars of the GTP II (Growth and Transformation Plan) related to manufacturing include (1) developing light and small manufacturing enterprises that are globally competent and leading in Africa (2) establishing a foundation for further growth of the strategic heavy industries which ultimately enable Ethiopia to become an industrialized country by 2025 (source: GTP II, PP 38). Thi...

We generalize a trade model with firm-specific heterogeneity and R&D-based growth to allow for an endogenous education decision of households and an endogenously evolving population. Our framework is able to explain cross-country differences in living standards and trade intensities by the differential pace of human capital accumulation among industrialized countries. Consistent with the empiri...

We investigate the similarity of the country endowments of the newly industrialized East Asian countries (NICs) and their major developed trading partners since the 1960s. In particular, we analyze their factor endowments in the years 1965, 1977, and 1990, using the lens condition of Deardorff (1994). Because of the similarity of endowments of the NICs and their developed-country trading partne...

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Many analysts believe that adverse climate changes in the form of global warming are— or soon will be—under way as the result of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. (See the box entitled “What Is Global Warming?”) The largest such source of these gases is carbon dioxide (CO2) resulting from the growing consumption of fossil fuels (petroleum products, natural gas, and coal). Consequentl...

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