Britain’s National Health Service will pay for patients to be treated abroad to help cut down long waiting lists. The policy shift was forced by a European Court of Justice ruling saying patients could seek treatment in other countries if they face “undue delay” at home.
Britain’s centre-left Labour government has
Through stringent regulations, the European Union is making sure that Britain cleans the urban waste water that flows into the seas surrounding the island nation. So the largest raw sewage sludge drying plant in the world is located near the Northumberland industrial town of Middlesbrough.
Every day it squeezes 250,000 tons
Why some countries are rich and others poor is a question that plagues economists, sociologists and others around the globe. Some suggest that the form of government affects wealth, while others argue that it is the natural resources of the country. A new study suggests that ecology explains the
The recent debate in America on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research more or less ignored the question of whether government or the private sector could do a better job in that field, critics are pointing out.
The evidence suggests that private firms are better positioned to develop cures for
Stockholm, where a quarter of Swedes live, has turned to market competition to provide health care more efficiently than its government-run system. Over the past few years, the Health Services Council in Stockholm has created an “internal market” a system of private health care providers within the larger public-financed
Equal proportions of Canadians are on welfare in each province about 9 percent of households but those in Quebec tend to remain on welfare two to four times as long, depending on the category of recipient, compared to other provinces. As recently as 1995, the Quebec government did
South African business has experienced tightening labour-market constraints as the balance of economic power shifted from employers towards employees after the 1994 elections. New labour laws introduced by labour minister Tito Mboweni have been biting. The Labour Relations Act, Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Employment Equity Act, and Skills Development
Pharmaceutical companies spent a lot on prescription drug marketing in America $13.8 billion in 1999 alone. But most of it was spent promoting their products to physicians, not advertising to consumers. However, in less than a decade, direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs increased from $55 million (1991) to
Canada must implement more innovative welfare reforms similar to those in the United States in order to decrease the number of welfare beneficiaries significantly, concludes a new study from Canadas Fraser Institute.
Both Canada and the U.S. have experienced declines in the number of welfare cases, both in absolute terms and
Researcher Terry M. Moe believes that the appeal of private schools is especially strong among American parents who are low income, minority, and living in low-performing districts precisely the parents who are most disadvantaged under the current system. Moe argues that they are the ones who would disproportionately take
