In this paper, we track the level of economic well-being of the population of men who began receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits in 1980–81 from the time just after they became beneficiaries (in 1982) to 1991, nearly a decade later. We present measures of the economic...

Market-based structural adjustment programes have been much critised as a blueprint for economic and human development. In Uganda, the first phase of the Economic Recovery Programme (launched in 1987) has brought progress, in that macroeconomic stability and rapid economic growth have been...

The delivery of health services represents one of the most daunting challenges confronting contemporary management. The complexity of the issues involved suggests that health service policy makers seeking to allocate scarce resources would find the opportunities offered by large scale modelling...

It is often necessary to use ratios rather than absolute numbers as inputs and outputs in data envelopment analysis. This may be necessary in order to reflect accurately the underlying production function, or because of the nature of the data available. This note explains why the Banker, Charnes...

This paper focuses on the role of government finance in economic development. The effects of various kinds of public spending and revenue (mainly taxes) are examined. An empirical investigation of 56 developing countries is used to assess this role of the government and to evaluate whether it is...