Have the authorities now done enough with funding for lending and infrastructure funding to break free of the monetary straitjacket?
Even when health services are provided free of charge, monetary and time costs of travel to a local clinic represent the price of access to health care.
However, even when health services are provided free of charge, monetary and time costs of travel to a local clinic may pose a significant barrier for vulnerable segments of the population, leading to overall poorer health.
But that is largely due not to the absence of stifling social protection, as neoliberals claim, but to the freeing up of monetary policy after Britain was ignominiously pitched out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992, and by staying outside the straitjacket of the one-size-fits-all Eurozone.
When asked about implementing population-wide tobacco control policies such as tobacco-free villages or establishment of monetary punishment for smoking in villages, most doubted their practicality.
Paul Killik, senior partner of stockbrokers Killik & Co, also warns that inflation is a serious risk: "It is important to remember that simply holding cash long-term is not risk-free as the real value of monetary assets will continue to be eroded by inflation over the medium- to long-term thanks to many western governments, including our own, printing money.
Since everyone involved contributed their work for free, the monetary cost of this project has been nil so far.
Of the 90 DTC sites studied, 52% offered some type of monetary inducement including rebates, coupons, free trials, and offers for merchandise.
But participatory enterprise requires commensurate mechanisms of monetary exchange which are equitable and transparent, free from the fantasies and injustices of the conventional model.
This study was designed to investigate the amount of monetary expenditure incurred by families using apparently free maternity services.
