Other recently-proposed causes for supply-side stagnation are associated with features of resource allocation, such as over-sizing of financial activities, as discussed by Canuto (2013b).
Notwithstanding improved data collection efforts, such lags will always be a feature of resource allocation methods.
One of the important features of database fragmentation and allocation techniques is the fact that they depend not only on the entries of a database relation, but also on their empirical frequencies of use.
The purpose of the substantive questions was to capture the specific features of the Kenyan resource allocation system and the purpose of the theoretical questions was to link the features of policy implementation in the context of the Kenyan health care system to findings in previous studies.
In forming the NCTC, it is not the Government's intent in any way to affect the basic features of the Constitutional provisions and allocation of powers between the States and the Union.
A specific data extraction form was designed for assessment of quality features of studies, such as randomization, allocation concealment, intention-to-treat principle, similarity of treatment arms according to known prognostic factors, follow up and drop-outs [ 22, 23].
Because of this feature, the allocation of risk between insurers and reinsurers is more efficient.
Centrally dictated features of the program – namely predetermined funding allocations to districts and eligibility rules – combine with the decentralized selection process within districts to counteract this initially regressive application pattern and produce a program that is, like many other CDD programs, only mildly pro-poor.
The Electoral College is one of the political safeguards of federalism: those structural features of our constitutional system -- like the allocation of two senators to each state, whatever its size -- that of their own force and without court intervention assure that the states count as distinct political entities, not merely administrative units of one central government.
We also planned sensitivity analysis based on methodological features of the included trials (trials reporting adequate allocation concealment compared with all other trials).
