The equipment grant made by the centre to a college, department or course for a specific...

Resource allocation is used to assign the available resources in an economic way. It is part of resource...

Gary Stern, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, affirms an important, if not obvious, fact in a column appearing in the June edition of the bank's magazine, The Region: "risk is not evenly distributed across banks." His point is that only the...

[arrow right ] A Stanford professor schools pharma on professional marketing. Pharm Exec Q+A SRIDHAR NARAYANAN, AN ASSISTANT professor of marketing at the Stanford Graduate School ot Business, recently completed a trio of studies about the function and usefulness of pharmaceutical advertising...

Desertification represents one of the "greatest environmental challenge of our times" and could set off mass migrations of people fleeing degraded homelands, a United Nations report warned Thursday.The report called on governments in arid regions to revise rules on land use to halt overgrazing and...

Finance ministers and central bankers should remain vigilant to ensure the smooth functioning of financial markets that have been jarred by a global credit crisis, the International Monetary Fund's policy-making committee said Saturday.The group also said in a statement that monetary policy of member governments...

The question has risen recently with the medical profession, "what can we do vs. what should we do" . Resource allocation is a term that refers to placing the patient in the proper bed based on the acuity of the patient's health problems. The cost involved with treating patients in the hospital is a huge consideration when deciding whether to withdraw or withhold treatment.