towards his maintenance, and is asked to do so, nor the fact that a hospital patient can well afford to pay for treatment, and is expected to do so, vitiate the essentially voluntary character of the great bulk of the work in that hospital, which is certainly primarily intended for and mainly used by those who cannot afford to pay for such treatment. Any such payments are, of course, quite volu...

M. Heys , T. Candler , A. Costello , D.S. Manandhar , R.M. Viner e a Institute for Global Health, University College London, UK b Department of Paediatrics Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust, UK c Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MCA), World Health Organization, Switzerland d Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA), Nepal e Institut...

This paper describes the reconnaissance function for the siting of deployable field hospitals. It reports two levels of reconnaissance, theatre/operational and tactical. The paper describes the factors to be considered when conducting the reconnaissance and the format of the reconnaissance report.

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Consumer arbitrage affects international pricing in several ways. If all consumers face the same arbitrage costs, a monopolist's profit increases with arbitrage costs, and world welfare declines with them (if output does not rise). If arbitrage costs differ across consumers, a monopolist may sell in a second country even if there is no local demand—it can use the second country to discriminate ...

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