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Personal income tax and income inequality in Ecuador between 2007 and 2011
(2017-12)
This paper uses data from individual income tax returns to explore the redistributive effect of personal income tax in Ecuador between 2007 and 2011. Following common practice in tax incidence analysis, we first compute ...
Controlling cardiovascular diseases in low and middle income countries by placing proof in pragmatism
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)
Low and middle income countries (LMICs) bear a huge, disproportionate and growing burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) which constitutes a threat to development. Efforts to tackle the global burden of CVD must therefore ...
Critical review of multimorbidity outcome measures suitable for low-income and middle-income country settings: Perspectives from the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) researchers
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)
Objectives: There is growing recognition around the importance of multimorbidity in low-income and middle-income country (LMIC) settings, and specifically the need for pragmatic intervention studies to reduce the risk of ...
Adoption of technology by the low-income population segment: The low-cost hot water heater case
(Pergamon-elsevier Science LtdOxfordInglaterra, 2012)
Property rights and market behavior in the low-income housing sector: Evidence from Chile
(WILEY, 2022)
Recent decades have seen a strong commitment in development theory and practice toward the idea of promoting homeownership among low-income families, partly based on the idea that property formalization constitutes an ...
Determinants of ICT usage among low-income groups in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru
The authors examine the determinants of information and communications technology (ICT) usage among low-income people in three developing countries: Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. Using two composite indicators, they focus ...
Framing health taxes: Learning from low-and middle-income countries
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2023)
Health taxes are effective policy instruments to save lives, raise government revenues and improve equity. Health taxes, however, directly conflict with commercial actors' interests. Both pro-Tax health advocates and ...
Systematic review of diagnostic and prognostic models of chronic kidney disease in low-income and middle-income countries
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)
Objective: To summarise available chronic kidney disease (CKD) diagnostic and prognostic models in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Method Systematic review (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews ...
Applying systems thinking to identify enablers and challenges to scale-up interventions for hypertension and diabetes in low-income and middle-income countries: Protocol for a longitudinal mixed-methods study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)
Introduction There is an urgent need to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly in low-and middle-income countries, where the greatest burden lies. Yet, there is little research concerning the ...
Addressing NCDs: Is it really a global coalition?
(Elsevier, 2013)
The Lancet, in its excellent Series,1 acknowledged the importance of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). These Series stress, among many important points, the ...