Paying for health care may exclude poor people. Burkina Faso adopted the DOTS strategy implementing "free care" for Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment. This should increase universal health coverage and help to overcome social and economic barriers to health access.

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The recent financial problems are certainly partly due to the complexity of the standards used to value financial instruments, and to the difficulty met by regulatrs and accounting companies to verify the accounts of banks and other financial institutions. We sketch the main standards used and...

Standard Setting Organizations have developed FRAND agreements in order to prevent firms from holding up other participants once a standard is created. We analyze here the consequences of such agreements-in particular the requirements of fairness and non-discrimination-for the creation of...

We discuss computational issues in the sequential probit model that have limited its use in applied research. We estimate parameters of the model by the method of simulated maximum likelihood (SML) and by Bayesian MCMC algorithms. We provide Monte Carlo evidence on the relative performance of...