Cet article presente les resultats d'une etude sur I'importance du revenu et d'un soutien social pour les femmes Agees atteintes d'un handicap. Les resultats de cette etude demontrent que le soutien financier est le facteur le plus important dans la vie de ces femmes et qu'avec un revenu adequat, ces femmes peuvent tres bien s'organiser en ce qui concerne le soutien social. Twenty years ' experience and a client-centred approach to rehabilitation has made me skeptical about the role of formal "social support " versus income in the lives of women with disabilities. ' My own expe-

investigate lack publicly traded options. 11 Thus, we are forced to use the best available substitute: changes in the VIX index, VIX t , which corresponds to a weighted average of eight implied volatilities of near-the-money options on the OEX (S&P 100) index. 12 These data are provided by the Chicago

Migration, Globalisation and PovertyThe UK Department of for International Development (DFID) supports policies, programmes and projects to promote international developmentpoverty reduction globally. DFID provided funds for this study as part of that objective goal but the views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) alone. Development Research Centre on

. In the treatments in which money was offered, a larger amount yielded a higher performance. However, offering money did not always produce an improvement: subjects who were offered monetary incentives performed more poorly than those who were offered no compensation. Several possible interpretations of the results

there was not enough money to pay for the dowry. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 31 August 2009.

scores in the school records of children. The Educational Testing Service alone employs about 2,000 people, annually administers Scholastic Aptitude Tests to thousands of aspirants to college, and makes enough money to support a large basic research operation. Its tests have tremendous power over

Three articles in this issue address the role of vitaminand mineral supplements for preventing the occurrence or progression of chronic diseases. First, Fortmann and colleagues (1) systematically reviewed trial evidence to up-date the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommenda-tion on the efficacy of vitamin supplements for primary prevention in community-dwelling adults with no nutri-tional deficiencies. After reviewing 3 trials of multivitamin supplements and 24 trials of single or paired vitamins that randomly assigned more than 400 000 participants, the authors concluded that there was no clear evidence of a beneficial effect of supplements on all-cause mortality, car-diovascular disease, or cancer. Second, Grodstein and coworkers (2) evaluated the efficacy of a daily multivitamin to prevent cognitive decline among 5947 men aged 65 years or older participating

Three articles in this issue address the role of vitaminand mineral supplements for preventing the occurrence or progression of chronic diseases. First, Fortmann and colleagues (1) systematically reviewed trial evidence to up-date the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommenda-tion on the efficacy of vitamin supplements for primary prevention in community-dwelling adults with no nutri-tional deficiencies. After reviewing 3 trials of multivitamin supplements and 24 trials of single or paired vitamins that randomly assigned more than 400 000 participants, the authors concluded that there was no clear evidence of a beneficial effect of supplements on all-cause mortality, car-diovascular disease, or cancer. Second, Grodstein and coworkers (2) evaluated the efficacy of a daily multivitamin to prevent cognitive decline among 5947 men aged 65 years or older participating

The concept of good enough governance provides a platform for questioning the long menu of institutional changes and capacity-building initiatives currently deemed important (or essential) for development. Nevertheless, it falls short of being a tool to explore what, specifically, needs to be done

After a short discussion of Mises ’ view on money, which sheds light on a purely statistical version of the business cycle, the article focuses on how the introduction of fiduciary money affects economic behaviour within the Austrian context. In particular, it is emphasised that the early