The pre-eminence of trade and investment in the economic prosperity of developed and developing countries cannot be …. However, very little is known about the simultaneous effect of trade and investment on growth in SSA when institutional … control variables are introduced in the model. Therefore, this study examines the role of trade and investment in the growth …

delivery, cost and vendor relationship management. …

This article presents for the first time a comparative study of the cost of disability for households in 31 European … nature of the present analysis shows these national estimates of the cost disability from a broader perspective than previous … research. One important finding of this study is that there is a significant diversity in the cost of disability across …

population. We adopted a national healthcare perspective to estimate the cost of cancer for hospital episodes, ED presentations …,900 Australians (1.7% Indigenous Australians). The total healthcare system cost of all cancers during the first 12-months post … cost of cancer, and addresses current research gaps by highlighting the distribution of healthcare and individual costs by …

as well as a reference concerning the insurance cost in High Risk Areas. The main part of this work investigates the …

This paper presents a methodology to integrate cost-benefit analysis and SAM-CGE-based impact evaluation. While the two … approaches should be integrated for complex investment projects, since their economic evaluation cannot rely solely on the … partial equilibrium assumptions of cost-benefit (CB) analysis. Unlike CB analysis, impact evaluation looks at the economy as a …

profitability while farm size as well as costs of labor and fertilizer had negative effects. Farmers ranked high input cost, land … tenure insecurity, and high cost of irrigation as challenges to urban exotic vegetable production. We recommend that urban …

This paper presents the enhancement and impacts of the system losses, voltage profile and cost by using distributed … reactive power losses and cost of the system. First, various sizes of DG penetration levels and the impact of distributing the …, the voltage profile and cost of the system are analyzed. The proposed methodology has been tested for IEEE-14 bus …

the adoption of internet/e-business technology can be explained by perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and cost … cost variable failed in demonstrating the implementation of social media marketing by SMEs. This work strongly suggests …

understanding of the national burden of the cost of wet compresses and the details regarding their prescription is far from complete …. We investigated the national burden of the annual pharmaceutical cost of wet compresses prescribed in Japan and estimated … the predictors of this cost using nationwide health insurance claims data. Methods: We extracted the records on wet …