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In comparison to the policy for other field, the policy for medicine and public health is to consider the value of life or the value of the quality of life. Quality of life is very well known as a concept of QOL. Also, Quality Adjusted Life of Years (QALY) which integrates QOL over life of years...
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This paper explores the concept of city ranking as a way to measure the dynamics and complexities of urban life. These rankings have various dimensions and uses. Both the context in which these rankings are done and their nature have changed considerably over time. These rankings face many...
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After giving an overview of the state of migration policy in developing countries with special reference to Pakistan this paper essentially revisits the issue of policy and its effect on rural to urban migration under an extended family theoretical framework. This specific approach is motivated...
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agricultural rationing, we first check if the model stands up to China's data from 1949-1992, we find that the importance of … consumption is also less than that of investment. Such findings are consistent with the reality of China. …
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The employment shock of late 2008 in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …
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employment rate. Our illustrative application to China shows that gradually increasing the current low minimum age of retirement …
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In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate … change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the …. In the Copenhagen negotiation, there will be strong pressure on China to take on emissions reduction commitments and …
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The rise of China has major repercussions for a country such as Bangladesh which has emerged as an important player in … more than one player. Evidently, impact and implications of competition from China will have to be examined and scrutinized …
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China has achieved great success in its economic development since it has conducted economy-wide reforms and opened … itself to the outside world. Within less than three decades, China has now become a leading economy in the world, the second … which China receives the most FDI inflows, as well as the principal destination of its exports, with the US and Japan being …
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