Design problems constitute the first stage in developing a machining transfer line. This paper is concerned with a problem in which a transfer line has to be designed in an optimal way to produce parts of different types. Each part of a specific type requires a unique set of operations to be...

We study a planning problem of an imperfect production of a single product. The product is assumed to be continuously divisible. There are two facilities: a main facility dedicated to the original production and a facility dedicated to re-manufacturing defective units coming from the main...

This paper analyses spontaneous commercialisation phenomena in the public health care system of transitional Russia. The authors relate these phenomena to the government's policy of vague declarations of comprehensive universal coverage unsupported by sound financial commitments. The paper...

International health policy proposals increasingly emphasise health system strengthening and innovation. In a context of liberalised provision, the scope for innovative health system rebuilding depends on the viability, effectiveness and capabilities of the non-governmental providers. Yet the...

This paper argues that planned health care provision and market regulation play distinct roles in relation to the effective provision of equitable health care. Governmental planned provision has as a core objective ensuring that the health system is redistributive and that the poor have access...

Examines analytically and through field work the forced transfer of economic and business concepts into the vocabulary of local government. Reflects on the use of discourse analysis in economic investigaton.

This paper identifies a large gap between the unusally implicit assumptions about non-market working relationships that underpin health care policy and evidence on non-market behaviour in practice. It then draws a series of conclusions for policy.