privatization advocates believe that transfer to private sector increases firm’s performance and value, business environment, and therefore economic growth and welfare improves. in this research, by using the 70 accepted firms in the tehran stock exchange for the period of 2005 to 2009, we investigate the effect of firm’s ownership structure on their value by applying generalized method of mome...

BACKGROUND Ghana's low investment in household sanitation is evident from the low rates of improved sanitation. This study analysed how land ownership, tenancy security and livelihood patterns are related to sanitation investments in three adjacent rural and peri-urban communities in a district close to Accra, Ghana's capital. METHODS Qualitative data was gathered for this comparative ethnogr...

land use is a legal - economic term for how land operation. land use in urban regions have been identified in urban master plan or design hadi (guide plan) and outside the legal boundaries of cities and towns as well as protect the land use or possible changes in land is under the ministry of agriculture. in some cases legal experts have different opinions about the land use. one of them is the...

It is widely accepted that environmental degradation and poverty are linked and that conservation and poverty reduction should be tackled together. However, success with integrated strategies has been elusive. Here, we present the results of a study that illustrates how development that combines environmental and economic perspectives and that provides appropriate compensation to affected popul...

the purpose of the current research was to assess and analyze the effects of land renovation and development schemes. the work was carried out as case study in khor o biabanak area of esfahan province. the research was based upon survey, utilizing questionnaire and interview as tools to gather data. the statistical population contained all the land holdings related to the projects who had recei...

The German hospital market has been subject over the past two decades to a variety of healthcare reforms. Particularly the introduction of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) in 2004 aimed to increase efficiency of hospitals. The objective of the paper is to review recent studies comparing the efficiency of German public, private non-profit and private for-profit hospitals. The results of the studi...

The paper uses an overlapping generations model to examine the effects of an increase in a household’s land ownership on child labor. Consistent with previous studies, it is found that small increases in land lead to increased child labor. However, as land continues to increase child labor declines. Further, even when an increase in land ownership causes an immediate rise in child labor, there ...

Little research has focused on how factors influencing travel behavior change in rapidly developing and motorizing cities. We examine the case of household motor vehicle ownership, focusing on potential variations in preferences revealed through vehicle choice models estimated for Santiago de Chile in 1991 and 2001, and including measures of relative location, metro proximity, residential densi...