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Besides death and taxes, constantly increasing health care spending has become inevitable in the United States. The root causes are difficult to unearth because of the studied finger pointing of the key players. The medical and care-giving professions...

The United States has used multiple U.S. agencies and a private, not-for-profit entity to implement the domestic and international provisions of the Clean Diamond Trade Act (CDTA). The Departments of State and the Treasury have led U.S. efforts to...

The United States spends more money on health care than any other country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The OECD consists of 30 democracies, most of which are considered the most economically advanced countries in...

The goal of antitrust advocates is to increase the role of competition, assure that competition works in the interests of consumers, and challenge abuses of concentrated economic power in the American and world economy. Antitrust policies were first...

Where economic activity will locate in the future is one of the most important questions in economics. Even though advances in technology have reduced the cost of transport, communication and information gathering and processing, hence curtailing the...

The US coal industry has gone through a number of gradual shifts in recent decades. The industry has become more concentrated, and mine productivity has improved. More low-sulphur coal and less high sulphur coal is today being produced. Less coal is...

The development of agricultural biotechnology offers the opportunity to increase crop production, lower farming costs, improve food quality and safety, and enhance environmental quality. This new book describes the economic, scientific, and social...

Japanese manufacturing in the US elicits much speculation. Concentrating on autoparts production, these studies show not only how Japanese manufacturing has brought change to East Tennessee but also how it has changed through its experience in America...

Small businesses are a key cog in the American economy, as firms of under 100 employees represent 98% of the country's enterprises. In 1953, Congress created the Small Business Administration to help small firms face the problems of large-scale industry...

Governments the world over fret continuously about the low level of transfer of technology, especially within their own countries. The general problem is military to industry although the variations are numerous. Problems of presentation, offering and...

The key issues of the health care system are often conceptualised as involving three basic dimensions: the quality of health care provided; access to the health care system and the cost of health care. This book presents studies of two distinct types of...

European Arms TradeBook InformationISBN 9781560723004Author Martin S. NaviasFormat HardbackPage Count 167Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551640907Author Kathryn KopinakFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

This book asks whether the post-crisis acquisitions amounted to a "fire sale" of valuable Asian assets. If so, was there truly no other solution?Book InformationISBN 9788763000871Author James ZhanFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Copenhagen...

While "Advances" continues to publish papers from any area of Finance, the focus of this issue is on corporate governance, broadly defined as the system of controls that helps corporations and other organizations effectively manage, administer, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895208030Author Michael B. DavieFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Brash PublishingPublisher Brash PublishingWeight(grams) 858g

The Chinese government incorporated tourism and urbanisation as a key component for economic and social development in the Five-Year National Plan. This book starts with a general introduction to the concept of urbanisation and tourism development in the...

High rates of dental disease remain prevalent across the nation, especially in vulnerable and under-served populations. According to national surveys, 42 percent of adults with tooth or mouth problems did not see a dentist in 2008 because they did not...

Since small businesses have historically created a disproportionately large share of new jobs, this book analyses the factors that lead new businesses without employees to hire their first employee. This is a significant aspect of small business job...

The Medicare home health benefit provides coverage for home visits by skilled health care professionals. To be eligible for the home health benefit, a beneficiary must meet three different criteria. The beneficiary must (1) be homebound, (2) require...

A congressional or federal charter is a federal statute that establishes a corporation. Congress has issued charters since 1791, although the chartering by Congress of organisations with a patriotic, charitable, historical, or educational purpose is...

The Department of the Interior (DOI) manages ocean energy and mineral resources, including oil, natural gas, wind, and geothermal resources. Federally regulated offshore oil and gas projects currently account for 26% of the nation's domestic oil...

The majority of Chinese steel has been used to meet domestic demand in China. However, as its steel production continues to grow, over-capacity is becoming a major concern to Chinese industrial policy makers, as well as steelmakers outside China...

Industrial technologies have rapidly developed since the Industrial Revolution, and technological progress during the 19th century had been significantly promoted by the great inventors of that century including James Watt, Alfred Nobel and Thomas Edison...

The sale of goods falsely represented as authentic Indian-produced arts and crafts has been a persistent and potentially growing problem in the United States. At least 1.9 million members of federally recognised Indian tribes live in the United States,...

Brazil is a major supplier of ethanol to the world market, the result of its natural advantage in producing sugarcane. Global demand for ethanol and other biobased fuels is expected to grow in response to mandates for increased use of renewable fuels...

Financial stress encountered by dairy farmers in recent years has led Congress and the industry to reconsider how to deal with fluctuations in milk prices and financial prospects for dairy farmers. Some Members have voiced interest in alternatives to...

Farming as a family-owned and independent business has been an important part of the social and economic development of the United States. But for many black farmers it was more often than not a losing struggle. The end of slavery was followed by about...

U.S. policy to expand the production of biofuel for domestic energy use has significant implications for agriculture and resource use. While ongoing research and development investment may radically alter the way biofuel is produced in the future, for...

About 717,000 farms in the U.S. went out of business, or exited, between 1992 and 1997, but the total number of farms declined by just 13,400 because the number of entries (703,700 farms) nearly equalled exits. In fact, the farm count has remained...

This book investigates various drivers of innovation within small businesses, as well as the role that innovation plays in creating value in small businesses. The analysis suggests that additions in employee headcount increase innovation while growth in...

This book focuses on special characteristics of women and minorities in businesses. Particular attention is placed on women-owned businesses and women's economic well-being, including women's population statistics, their labour force participation, age,...

This book presents research on prison privatisation in the US, with a focus on state prison privatisation. The basic thrust is to research the privatisation of a governmental function that is traditionally treated as a core function and involves the use...

This book focuses on rebuilding Iraq's oil sector which is crucial to rebuilding Iraq's economy. Oil export revenues account for over half of Iraq's gross domestic product and over 90 percent of government revenues. Despite 4 years of effort and $2.7...

Several studies in agricultural economics have shown that farm production is normally inefficient in comparison to the best practice farming. This implies that more food could be produced with the existing inputs, or that the existing production could be...

In the globalised world of business, production is becoming fragmented into discrete activities and can be spread geographically within and across national borders while remaining integrated organisationally within a multinational company or network of...

The United States continues to debate the adequacy of the current and future supply of physicians. This book presents projections of physician supply and requirements for 18 physician specialties using the Physician Supply Model (PSM) and the Physician...

U.S. farmers and ranchers produce a wide variety of commodities for food, fuel and fibre in response to market signals. Farms also contain significant amounts of natural resources that can provide a host of environmental services, including cleaner air...

The Committee on Finance of the United States Senate requested the Commission to examine the competitive conditions affecting certain industries that are developing and adopting new industrial biotechnology (IB) processes and products. IB was defined as...

Food security is taken for granted in the industrialised world, where stable political and social structures ensure that everyone has access to safe and nutritious food sufficient to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. The picture in the developing...