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Survey of fertility preservation options available to patients with cancer arou...

Purpose Oncofertility focuses on providing fertility and endocrine-sparing options to patients who undergo life-preserving but gonadotoxic cancer treatment. The resources needed to meet patient demand often are fragmented along disciplinary lines. We quantify assets and gaps in oncofertility care on a global scale. Methods Survey-based questionnaires were provided to 191 members of the Oncofertility Consortium ...

Survey of Fertility Preservation Options Available to Patients With Cancer Arou...

Survey of Third-Party Parenting Options Associated With Fertility Preservation ...

Portuguese export performance in the European Market : an evaluation for the 2000s

This paper focuses the performance of Portuguese merchandise exports in this period, more precisely from 1999 were channelled to this group of countries in the beginning of the period under scrutiny, the analysis of the performance of those exports to this particular market is particularly relevant. The study is based on a descriptive analysis of the productive structure of merchandise exports to the EU15 and a...

International Competitiveness: is the reduction of wages a solution? An evoluti...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse, for the case of Portugal, the effectiveness of a wage reduction - a current proposal since 2011 to help the country to reverse the high public and external debts - in promoting the efficiency and the international competitiveness of the economy. A static multi-sector and single-country general equilibrium model is used and data is collected from GTAP7 Data Base. The mode...

What determines the export performance? : A comparative analysis of China and I...

This paper aims to aims to assess the competitiveness of exports of manufactured goods from China and India to the European Union in the 2000s. The empirical analysis is based on two methodologies: (i) a Constant Market Share analysis which allows to decompose the export growth to the European market into several components including an effect usually related to competitiveness, and (ii) an analysis based on th...

Trade in the enlarged European Union : a new approach on trade potential

This paper focuses on the trade potential of manufactured exports from countries belonging to the enlarged EU (EU25) to groups of countries of that economic area in 2002. We note that previous results on trade potential, based on the estimation of a gravity model, may be invalid. Thus, we propose a correct approach based on the Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood esti- mator and the calculation of confidence inte...

Foreign direct investment spillovers in Portugal : additional lessons from a co...

This paper investigates the impact of FDI on the productivity of Portuguese manufacturing sectors. Model specification is improved by considering the choice of the most appropriate interval of the technological gap for spillovers diffusion. We also allow for sectoral variation in the coefficients of the spillover effect; idiosyncratic sectoral factors are identified by means of a fixed effects model. Inter-sect...

Foreign Direct Investment spillovers : What can we learn from portuguese data?

This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on the productivity performance of domestic firms in Portugal. The data comprise nine manufacturing sectors for the period 1992-95. Relatively to previous studies, model specification is improved by taking into consideration several aspects: the influence of the “technological gap” on spill-overs diffusion and the choice of its most appropriate int...

Directrizes para um programa de transformação económica

A transformação de uma economia de direcção central numa economia de mercado (economia em transição) tem-se revelado uma tarefa complexa. Existe o consenso de que a transformação destas economias, sujeitas a uma prolongada ausência de incentivos de mercado, tem que ser orientada, através de um programa com medidas devidamente articuladas e perspectivadas no tempo. Mas a teoria económica não dispõe de receitas "...