Economy
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Equality and Efficiency in the Economics of Insurance
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Can sex be used as a risk classifier to set insurance premium rates if there is an indisputable statistical correlation?
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Southeast Asia has a synthetic drug problem, China has key stake in fixing it.
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Barrels of precursor chemicals seized by Myanmar police and military in Shan State. Photograph: Myanmar Police/UNODC/via Reuters Beijing has gained momentum in its bid for regional dominance in Southeast Asia. Fuelled by notions of Chinese largesse, high-tech industrial and infrastructure development, and an ongoing surge of tactical investments pouring into the region in recent years,…
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Are Human Rights Claims Mechanisms an adequate Social Justice tool to Address Inequality?
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Introduction: Equality, as a concept, is not necessarily complex or abstract. It is grounded in the idea that ‘everyone counts as one and none is more than one’.1 Extrapolating from this idea, inequality exists where needs of some are disproportionately emphasised over others. This could be a result of numerous factors.2 It is likely that…
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The Batsman’s Responsibility: China’s Liability for its Wet Markets under International Law
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Background and Introduction Between Covid-19 being dubbed as the “Chinese virus” and the Chinese being vilified for their traditional food habits, the People’s Republic of China has witnessed countless controversies over the recent pandemic. Several studies including the World Health Organisation have shown how the virus originally bred in bats and snakes and have attempted…
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Clinical Economics
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The first thing that almost any student from my university will tell you, when pressed about the Return Service Agreement (RSA), is that service shouldn’t be for sale. One of the most contentious issues of UP Manila life is how every student of a health sciences program who has lost sleep over an exam the…