Felix Monggae, the society's chief executive backs the ivory sale as a means of convincing the local, population of the value of elephants.
At Intel, we track health reform in 22 countries, and we see a global trend toward collective payment paying groups of providers to manage the health of a population based on value rather than volume of procedures.
FORBES: Ernst & Young Outline New Vision of Patient-Centric Healthcare
Private pensions are different, but some economists think a smaller working population will tend to depress the value of financial assets and that will in turn affect pensions.
Consider: If women had been in charge of creating the organizational structures for the last few hundred years, wouldn't we all have figured out how to care for the kids and elders without losing the value of half the population's intelligence in the workplace?
The lost amenities and added population density, they said, would cut their property value by a third, and they were not going to take it lying down.
Exchange plans could be required to do separate actuarial value calculations: one for the regular Exchange population (using provider rates applicable to that population) and one for the Medicaid population (using the much lower rates typically used by Medicaid health plans).
Finestrella is striving to change the landscape of telecommunication services in Mexico by providing affordable, high-value postpaid mobile telephone service to the large unbanked population in Mexico.
It is yet another demonstration of the appeal of free institutions, in this case to people with East Asian value systems and in a country with the largest Muslim population in the world.
Either way, prices got well beyond what an intrinsic calculation of value (figuring in supply and the incomes of the local population) would suggest.
Money needs psychological acceptance: The population must unblinkingly accept the fact that a plastic card or flimsy paper is of great value.
What about the notion that Oregon's beauty, much of it preserved even as the state population has grown from 2.2m in 1973 to 3.6m today, has a value for everybody in the state?
Most economists would agree that the ability for subscribers to avoid directed advertising increases the cost to all subscribers because the value of that subscription list has been reduced because it now consists of a smaller population of persons who may be interested in a product based on their interest in the contents of a subscription.
While demonstrating statistically significant benefits in a broad population would be the ideal test before implementing Watson far and wide, a dramatic demonstration of its value, similar to its appearance against champions on Jeopardy!
FORBES: Is IBM's Watson in Jeopardy? This Oncologist Thinks So!
How will this panel value a newly proven technology against all the drugs, devices or services in the entire Medicare population?
FORBES: To Ensure Ongoing Investment In Medical Innovation, Repeal IPAB
But if the system in general were providing value for money, America's vast expenditure would at least be reflected in a healthier population than in more frugal countries.
One of the most interesting things about the HDI report is its home value analysis of the 50 largest U.S. real estate markets (as broken down by population size of Metropolitan Statistical Area).
FORBES: Cities Where Home Values Will Rise And Fall The Most In 2011
应用推荐