The call of the editorial of the International Journal of Health Policy and Management regarding the “Need to talk about corruption in health systems” is spot on. However, the perceived difficulties of why this is so should be explored from an actor’s perspective, as they differ for government actors, donors and the research community. In particular, false dilemmas around definition pr...

We develop a model of decision makers’ demand for agricultural economic information services. This model treats choice of external decision-support services as a function of actors’ assessment of how alternative investments in information complement their internal competencies. Data from a survey in four commodity systems are used to evaluate hypotheses as to how human capital, and functional r...

Electricity authorities need capacity assessment and expansion plans for efficiently charging the growing Electric vehicle (EV) fleet. Specifically, distribution grid needs significant as it faces most impact to accommodate high variant residential EV load. Utility companies employ different scheduling policies maintenance of their transformers (hereinafter, XFR). However, they lack scenario-ba...

Copper is a critical mineral resource and plays crucial role in social economic development. In China, the world’s largest copper consumer, footprints embodied transfers among sectors have not been studied sufficiently. Combing an environmentally extended input-output model complex network method, this paper systematically analyzes China’s consumption final demand production process. The resear...