Advanced marketing education curriculum in secondary schools in Wisconsin

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Economic Reform and Economic Performance: Evidence from 20 Developing Countries

Do adjustment policies assist or retard growth? This paper presents data on economic performance (aggregate and sectoral growth, inflation, investment and external account) for 20 countries. The data are classified on an annual basis according to the country’s policy stance in that year: controlled economy, partially or fully liberalised. This approach allows both control-group and before-versus-after analyses which are combined with a review of growth regressions and an analysis of case study material on adjustment. The evidence suggests three hypotheses. First, countries with controlled economies have performed badly compared with those which have moved towards greater market orientation. Second, economic performance does not differ greatly between fully-fledged market economies and partially liberalised ones: partly because several countries have pursued liberalisation with no improvement in performance. Third, given that there is little difference in manufacturing and agricultural growth between full and partial liberalisers yet overall growth is more rapid for the former, the additional growth must be in the service sector. These hypotheses suggest that the balance between state and market should be tilted more toward the state than is currently supported by international development agencies.economic reform; economic peformance; structural adjustment; macroeconomic policy; inflation; growth; developing countries

Comparative Perspectives on Child poverty: a review of poverty measures

Child poverty matters directly as children constitute a large share of the population and indirectly for future individual and national well- being. Developed country measures of child poverty are dominated by income-poverty, although health and education are often included. But these are not necessarily the most direct measures of the things that matter to children. Moreover, a broader range of factors than material well-being matter for child development; family and community play an important role. The conclusion is that social and psychological variables are an important component of child welfare. Can such a conclusion be extended to developing countries? It might be thought not, since the dictates of a focus on absolute poverty imply concern with fundamentals such as malnutrition, illiteracy and premature death and the things which cause these outcomes. But such a view is short-sighted. Child development concerns are at least as important in developing countries as developed ones (if less well understood). Hence approaches to child welfare in developing countries (both measurement and policy) should also adopt a broad-based approach which embraces diverse aspects of the quality of a child’s life, including child rights.Children, poverty measurement, child poverty

Vile transgressor of the womb : prosecution and persecution for concealment in Puritan Massachusetts.

This dissertation investigates the crime of concealment in Puritan Massachusetts. The 1624 Jacobean statute, which specifically identified concealing as both the crime and the evidence, provided the basis for prosecuting women who concealed the death of an infant. This dissertation focuses on an analysis that connects the act of concealment to a larger discussion of a woman’s association with secrecy and hiding that led to labeling her postpartum, criminal body as a threat to the colony. The act of concealment was evidence of a woman’s ability to control her own reproduction and her unwillingness to acknowledge her calling in Puritan Massachusetts: motherhood. This dissertation begins with a historical examination of the Massachusetts Bay colony to argue that, because of their covenant, illicit sexual misconduct and concealment caused a rift between the body of the colony and God’s favor. Their use of the 1624 statute for concealment and use of the Old Testament precepts were manifestations of their desire to form a legal system that enforced the values of the Puritan community specific to Massachusetts Bay. Chapter one also investigates anxieties concerning captivity, war, revocation of their charter, and declension of the Massachusetts Bay colony to contextualize the tense atmosphere surrounding the Puritan leadership that underscores the development of the Puritan jeremiad as an execution sermon for concealment. Chapter two traces the use of religious texts as instruments of literacy as well as for spiritual and emotional sustenance. Investigating the community’s belief in the power of printed material in a wilderness, both physical and spiritual, foregrounds the discussion about the role of the intimate connection between reading and spiritual life as they formed their Congregational Church. In Puritan Massachusetts women were exceptionally vulnerable in cases of immorality and sexual transgression, even more so when the sexual transgression resulted in a pregnancy. This vulnerability coupled with subjective criminality created a precarious situation for young, unmarried women. Chapter three analyzes Thomas Foxcroft’s sermon and Rebekah Chamblit’s declaration to show the rhetorical function of these texts. Chapter four argues these texts labeled Rebekah’s postpartum body a threat because of her ability to conceal evidence of her sexual sin and denied her calling to motherhood: a tenet of a virtuous woman in Puritan Massachusetts

Medication Therapy Management: Is it Worth Medicare’s Time?

Problem: Medication Therapy Management (MTM) is a service that a pharmacist can provide to any of their patients, but mostly to those who are either high risk patients for adverse events or those who are new to chronic medication therapy. As Medicare Part D has begun to cover MTM services, more and more pharmacists and other clinicians are becoming providers of MTM. The intent of MTM is to decrease adverse events and healthcare costs to both the patient and the third party payer. In realizing the benefits of MTM, it is important to assess these outcomes to see if clinical, humanistic, and economic benefits are being realized. However, the available knowledge and studies on MTM outcomes are very limited in scope and most results are inconclusive. This study contributes to the limited knowledge on whether patients find MTM services to be worth an investment of their time. Research Strategy: This retrospective analysis was designed to evaluate a small sample of previously surveyed patients qualifying for MTM services at 8 pharmacies in Kentucky. The main point of interest is the effect of patient characteristics on a person’s willingness to purchase MTM services. Descriptive statistics were used to characterize the study group. Logistic regression was used for the prediction of the probability of the patient’s willingness to pay for the MTM service. There is special interest on the findings associated with the differences in a patient’s value of time between the Medicare Part D qualifying age group and the non-qualifying age group. Major Findings: There was a difference between the age groups when looking at the value of time variables. Those patients in the age group not qualifying for Medicare Part D who place more than $5.00/hr value to their time decreases the probability that they will purchase the MTM service. This was not a significant finding in the Medicare Part D qualifying group. Recommendations: The results provide preliminary insight into whether investments in MTM services are worth public and private monetary resources when considering a patient’s willingness to spend their time to receive the service. Healthcare policy makers should be cognizant of the targeted population and the standards to be achieved when making their decisions related to MTM services

Preadolescent girls' group: theoretical background and program proposal

Call number: LD2668 .R4 HDFS 1988 W54Master of ScienceFamily Studies and Human Service

Text Message Monitoring after \u3ci\u3eQuon v. Arch Wireless\u3c/i\u3e: What Private Employers Need to Know about the Stored Communications Act and an Employee\u27s Right to Privacy

In June 2008, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that public employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the content of text messages sent from employer-owned devices. The court concluded that the expectation of privacy arises vis-à-vis the text-message service provider, even where an employee has signed an explicit waiver of such an expectation. The decision, Quon v. Arch Wireless, raises difficult questions about the limitations placed on text-message service providers by the Stored Communications Act, and an employer’s ability to regulate and monitor employee use of technology in the workplace. Although Quon only applies to public employers, the opinion also gives private employers a framework for creating technology-use policies that will protect employer access to text-message information. This Article will discuss statutory and constitutional limitations on accessing employee text messages, and what employers can do to reserve the right to review text-message communications

IEEPA\u27s Override Authority: Potential for a Violation of the Geneva Conventions\u27 Right to Access for Humanitarian Organizations?

This Note argues that, should the President exercise his override authority to prohibit or restrict the donation of humanitarian articles during an armed conflict involving the United States, the resulting prohibition or restriction would cause the United States to violate its obligations under the Conventions. This Note does not assert that the United States should not have the ability to put in place controls to prevent terrorists from benefiting from donations of funds and other humanitarian items; instead, it asserts that domestic law must tread as lightly and narrowly as possible where a widely accepted multilateral treaty exists and that domestic law ought not to override humanitarian law under the later-in-time rule unless absolutely necessary. IEEPA\u27s breadth permits, and the war on terror and related conflicts are likely to encourage, restrictions and prohibitions that disrupt the balance that the Conventions demand. Part I contends that when the President exercises the full power granted to him in the override authority, such action violates international law because the restrictions permitted by IEEPA conflict with humanitarian organizations\u27 right of access under the Conventions. Part II discusses the implications of a violation of the Conventions on both the international and domestic planes. Part II demonstrates that an analysis under the Charming Betsy doctrine does not necessarily dispose of the question, and that Congress\u27s established ability to override treaties under the later-in-time doctrine is inapplicable in this case, where IEEPA\u27s lack of specificity creates legal difficulties and political dilemmas for the United States