In 2003 the Government of Ghana established a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to improve health care access for Ghanaians and eventually replace the cash-and-carry system. This study evaluates the NHIS to determine whether it is fulfilling its purpose in the context of the Millennium...

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

Im Rahmen des ExWoSt-Forschungsfelds „Quartiers-Impulse“ wurden über einen zweijährigen Untersuchungszeitraum (2006-2008) stadtteilbezogene Ansätze der Wirtschaftsförderung erprobt und umgesetzt, um ihre Eignung als neue Bestandteile der Stadtentwicklungspolitik zu prüfen. Die Akteure...

Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian labor market reduce the returns to human-capital...