June 2013

Consequences of fiscal deficit

  The main objective of this paper is to understand and to evaluate recently expressed popular anxiety about fiscal deficits. The paper begins with a discussion of problems involved in measuring the fiscal deficit. A general conclusion is that all interesting measures of the federal fiscal deficit have increased substantially over the past eight presidential terms and are likely to increase further in the near...

Author(s):   Artan Nimani  

June 2013

Medical tourism: The new favorite tourist market

  Medical tourism, a new form of tourism industry flourishing around the world, holds a huge market potential in China. Its definition and related issues are under the way of being carefully examined with quite a concern on its development conditions and strategies. China, a late boomer in medical tourism, is in a total different social and economical situation and in urgent need to get close scrutiny in its...

Author(s):   Guojinga F. A. N., and Zhijun L.    

June 2013

Evaluation of the current higher education funding model in Rwanda using Higher Education Students’ Loans Department (HESLD-REB) as a case study

  Higher education funding in Rwanda uses a costs sharing approach. This has been analyzed to ascertain its suitability for Rwanda. This research looked at other funding methods that can be applicable for the higher education sector in Rwanda. These included use of PPP, tuition fees, bank loans and internally generated funds by higher learning institutions. It was found in this research that costs sharing...

Author(s):   Alfred Nuwagaba