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Democratic Deficit, Participation and the WTO

Joseph, Sarah - 2013

This chapter will analyze arguments that the World Trade Organization (WTO) suffers from a 'democratic deficit', which …

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Global Cancer Prevention : An Important Pathway to Global Health and Development

Beaglehole, Robert; Bonita, Ruth; Magnusson, Roger - 2011

Cancer is a leading global cause of death and disability responsible for approximately 7.6 million deaths each year. Around one third of cancers are attributable to a small number of preventable risk factors – including smoking and the harmful consumption of alcohol – for which effective...

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Democracy and Reforms

Amin, Mohammed - 2010

We use a sample of 147 countries to investigate the link between democracy and reforms. Democracy may be conducive to … but bring future prosperity. We test these hypotheses, using data on micro-economic reforms from the World Bank's Doing … institutions. The results provide a robust support for the claim that democracy is good for growth-enhancing reforms …

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Democracy and Regulatory Reforms

Amin, Mohammad; Djankov, Simeon - 2013

World Bank’s Doing Business database. The results provide some support for the hypothesis that democracy is good for …We use a sample of 144 countries over the period 2003-2013 to investigate the link between democracy and regulatory … reforms. Democracy may be conducive to reform, as politicians embrace growth-enhancing reforms to win elections. On the other …

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Deliberative Democracy Nationwide? - Evaluating Deliberativeness of Healthcare Reform in China

Korolev, Alexander - 2014

To date, China’s deliberative institutions have mainly been seen as small-scale mechanisms for controlling local social unrest. This paper explores how deliberative principles in China work at the national level. The case under scrutiny is China’s new healthcare reform. Drawing on the...

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Licensed Practical Nurses : Protected ‘Employees’ or Statutory ‘Supervisors’ Under the NLRA? The Impact of the 11th Circuit’s Lakeland Health Care Decision

Twomey, David P. - 2018

This article concerns the Lakeland Health case and the employer's to re-classify licensed practical nurses (LPNs), from protected employees to statutory supervisors, so as to remove them from employee protections afforded by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Under NLRA law, the article...

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Affordable Care Act Litigation : The Supreme Court and the Future of Health Care Reform

Gostin, Lawrence O.; Garcia, Kelli K. - 2012

In Florida v. HHS, a lawsuit brought on behalf of 26 states challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Supreme Court will determine the future direction of health care reform in the United States. During the unprecedented 5-1/2 hours of oral...

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Pandemic economics and the transformation of health policy

Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. This article summarizes key characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic that should be incorporated in economics and health policy analyses. We then review the literature on the importance...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the transformation of health policy : a syndemic perspective

Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. Three key properties escalate the COVID-19 pandemic into a syndemic. To address this triple crisis, we discuss the importance of integrating early, targeted and coordinated public...

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Misunderstanding the Model Law : Re Stanford International Bank

Ho, Look Chan - 2011

This article seeks to show that the English Court of Appeal’s refusal to recognize the US receivership in Re Stanford International Bank is not faithful to the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 and the decision’s precedential value is seriously questionable. The Court of Appeal’s...

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