China is often credited with a successful application of industrial policy. One important particularity of China's industrial policy is that it aims at levelling the playing field between the state economy and the private economy in access to finance, yet within a framework of strategic goals....

On the possibility of reducing public expenditures on medicine through deregulation. The market for medicine is special in three essential respects: (a) The role of the buyer is divided by three agents: the (informed) doctor, who prescribes the medicine, the public health insurance, which pays...

This paper discusses the development of Indonesia's health insurance programme as a lens through which to understand Indonesian social policy development. The Indonesian health insurance programme has experienced considerable development despite fluctuating economic growth and political...

In this paper we study the problem of exhaustible resources and renewable resources in a theoretical endogenous growth framework, under various assumptions. In particular, we consider the hypotheses that those two inputs are or are not technologically perfect substitutes of each other. Moreover,...