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...whining. Mayor Alvarez insisted this month that "it's almost impossible that we can achieve an acceptable budget" without a property-tax increase. But because Miami-Dade residents saw so much official profligacy during the housing bubble - county commissioners were famous for having cops chauffeur them around town, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in police overtime - Alvarez's suggestion is being met instead by calls to further streamline the county's bloated bureaucracy...
...article did include a hopeful caveat to this dire picture, however. As Rehm says, "We [now] know more than ever about which strategies can effectively control alcohol-related harms." The most cost-effective of these methods, he says, is simply to raise the price of alcohol. There's already evidence that this works. In France and Italy, for example, alcohol consumption has steadily plummeted over the past 25 years as the price of drinks has gone up relative to income compared with other countries. "Despite all stereotypes, Italy now has the lowest consumption of any European country," Rehm says...
...risk losing out on future reimbursements and coverage. Several days later, when the results revealed everything to be normal, I asked the radiologist how many infants were diagnosed with a problematic pelvis. Not many, I was told. However, she continued, the government reasoned that it was far more cost-effective to X-ray every newborn in the country - and fix the deformity before the child learned to walk - than shoulder the cost of corrective surgery when it was older. Needless to say, there are psychological benefits to this approach as well. Adrienne W. Covington, POISSY, FRANCE
...single-party rule, which can easily suppress any social dissent and move rapidly on any project. Also, China learned the lessons of Mao-era excesses and made necessary course corrections. Similarly India has understood the errors of its socialist beginnings, which suppressed private enterprise in all fields at the cost of developing human resources and infrastructure. But India, too, has made its course correction and the result has been the rapid economic growth of recent years. Indian democracy is essential for its highly fragmented society. But it can never be as decisive or quick as the Chinese government, since...
...than in a poor one. Though they're home to less than half the world's registered vehicles, low- and middle-income countries account for more than 90% of traffic fatalities. The report succeeds in spelling out the global impact of those crashes in cold, hard cash. Traffic injuries cost a whopping $518 billion a year. Poor countries generally spend more money responding to car accidents than they receive in development aid. The WHO offers a series of intuitive fixes for this growing problem: buckle down on speed limits, reduce drunk driving and tighten seat-belt laws. With pedestrians, cyclists...