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... spending that is 41.5% higher as a result of obesity. Rather than providing a point-estimate of obesity s impact on spending, Thorpe et al 17 focus on assessing the link between increases in obesity ... 10.2147/DMSOTT.S7384 The economic impact of obesity in the United States Ross A Hammond Ruth Levine Economic Studies Program, Brookings Institution, Was...

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... Operating and maintaining these housing units produces an annual economic impact in the City of Austin of $38.5 million in today’s dollars. When the remaining funds are expended in the coming ... the prospective impact of another round of bonds to be issued in 2012. Summary of Findings The construction of housing made possible by the 2006 bond funds ha...

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... burden of NCDs: • A global analysis of the economic impact of NCDs by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health • An analysis of the costs of scaling up a core intervention ... policy dialogue, including the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs. Their findings shed light on: • Size of the problem – Economic analysis by the World Econo...

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... constructed according to the cause of the chronic pain from a number of different sources and combined using AFs. The high price of pain: the economic impact of persistent pain in Australia ... estimate the economic impact of chronic pain in Australia in 2007. Chronic pain is defined as pain experienced every day for three months or more in the...

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... in ICT and turn part of them into variable costs. In our analy - sis we focus on the reduction in the fixed cost associated with the introduction of cloud computing. The increase in the marginal ... decreasing in the number of firms. The latter follows the equation of mo - tion: where N Et, is the number of new firms and is the rate of business destru...

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... diseases, in that it mainly explored the impact of disease on the economy through change in labour supply, or the opportunity cost of one unit of labour, and through the impact of the cost of treating ... exploring the economic impact of chronic diseases are: 1. the cost perspective, that is, exploring the economic cost of failing to intervene;...

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... public liabilities. Since immigrants typically are of working age at the time of their entry into the country, they enlarge the group of net tax payers and thus reduce the inter-temporal fiscal 53 In Bonin (2001), ... presented in the previous s ec tions were derived under certain assumptions regarding the projected population, the interest rate and the growth rate....

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... June). Economic Impact of Northern 239 ECONOMIC IMPACT OF HIGHER EDUCATION Illinois University on the Northern Illinois Region, Parer presetted at the annual meeting at the Midcontinent ... (1995, June 1). The Economic Impact of the University of Northern Iowa on the State of Iowa. Cedar Falls, IA: Department of Economics, The University...

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... determinant of economic growth, and U.S. business leaders realize the long-term economic benefits of investing in early learning. A December 2005 poll of business leaders shows that they overwhelmingly ... preparation. 72 Furthermore, investing during the preschool years confers the benefits of time. Investing early provides many more years across which to recoup the cos...

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