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In fact, tighter regulations designed to keep value in country through jobs and other economic benefits are becoming more of a norm, Robertson said. Take what’s happening in Tanzania, for instance. The country has instituted a ban on exporting rough in an effort to receive more benefits from...
The cost-sharing mechanism in health insurance is a highly debated political agenda [104]. Nepal is not an exception to politicization of cost-sharing in healthcare. The scrapping of co-payment provisions might have resulted in a moral hazard. Co-insurance or co-payment can avoid such behavio...
However, you always find that where regulations are not properly formulated, given the fact that some groups undertake agricultural-based activities, when there is drought in some areas, they are not able to perform their activities and the loan repayment is affected. Therefore, some of the ...
This shows that water, disturbance, and waste regulations tend to be problems in the country. For provisioning services, food production (0.56), and raw materials (0.31) increased in value, showing that there is a synergy among these ecosystem services. Also, the cultural services of culture (...
Payment of subsidies has proven to have a key role in ensuring a stable socio-economic situation in national parks and in preserving valuable semi-natural habitats and cultural landscapes. In general, it was found by respondents that from a conservation perspective, the support system can be ...
Some traditional fisher folk were permitted to fish in the river after 26 years, upon annual payment of a fee (Jana, 2007). However, the conditions that they need to hold and renew their license annually paying a certain amount of money pressure them to use unsustainable alternatives such as...
ASA supported some of these migrant workers through the supply of seed to produce their own food; it also collaborated with local authorities to set up a payment for soil conservation and water harvesting scheme for them. For the interactions and training of the seed growers, ASA, in ...
Although the government has implemented various regulations to help educate noncompliant participants and make the payment of arrears convenient for them, these have not had a significant impact, and the number of noncompliant participants has continued to rise. Informal workers who registered as NHI ...
system. This innovation has solved the problems of long queues, many waiting hours and the congestions at scheme offices. Moreover, the innovative renewal process is to dial *929# under the ‘NHIS Mobile Membership Renewal and Authentication Project’. It is a mobile money payment system which...