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Book Review --Working with Private Sector Providers for Better Health Care: An Introductory Guide

Kumar, Deepak - EconWPA - 2005

Working with Private Sector Provider for Better Healthcare: An Introductory Guide aims to provide the most critical approach to develop strategies for working with Private Sector Participation (PSPs) for better healthcare. This Guide focuses specifically on those PSPs who operate on a for-profit...

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Jamaica’s Private Sector: A Strategy For Sustainable Hypercompetition Development

Jones, Peter W - EconWPA - 2005

In order for Jamaica to transition from a developed to developing country there needs to be developed in Jamaica a strong knowledge based economy. The literature speaks to four preconditions that lead to knowledge becoming an effective engine of growth. These are: · An economic and...

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Environmental and Natural Resource Degradation in Intensive Agriculture in Bangladesh

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

in Bangladesh have tended to mask evidence of declining productivity. Although data are weak, numerous sources of …-term trials by the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) also indicate that intensive rice cultivation can result in declining … Research Institute (IRRI). There is considerable debate over the exact causes of declining productivity. In Bangladesh, the …

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Maintaining Momentum to 2015? An impact evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in Bangladesh

White, Howard; Masset, Edoardo; Blondal, Nina; … - EconWPA - 2005

Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades … Bank and other agencies. By contrast, nutrition began to improve only in the 1990s and remains high. The Bangladesh …

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Returns to education in Bangladesh

Asadullah, M Niaz - EconWPA - 2005

This paper reports labour market returns to education in Bangladesh using data from recent nationwide household survey …

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The Macroeconomics of Massive Giveaways

Gouret, Fabian - EconWPA - 2004

In a framework similar to the models of expectation on economic policy, we purpose a model where the government subsidizes firms privatized by massive giveaways to the managers who are empire- builders. The government injects funds because its aim is to avoid a drastic fall of output when a...

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Privatization and Regulatory Reform in Brazil: The Case of Freight Railways

Estache, Antonio; Goldstein, Andrea; Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

A variety of proposals for creating more competition within the railroad sector and in the broader freight transport sector are under consideration in countries throughout the world. Brazil, though something of a latecomer to wider infrastructure reform, has recently taken large steps in...

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'The Role of Employee Ownership in Privatisation of State Enterprises in Eastern and Central Europe,' (1993) Europe-Asia Studies Vol.45, No.3, 463-481.

Bogetic, Zeljko - EconWPA - 2005

The article provides a fresh look at employee ownership as a method of privatization and discusses theoretical and …

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CAN FISCAL POLICY EXPLAIN TECHNICAL INEFFICIENCY OF PRIVATISED FIRMS? A PARAMETRIC AND NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH

Alfano, Maria Rosaria; D'Orio, Giovanni - EconWPA - 2005

(Stochastic Frontier, Data Envelopment Analysis and Neural Network) are consistent. In fact, we see that privatization enhanced …

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How to Improve Forensic Science

Koppl, Roger - EconWPA - 2005

Some institutional structures for inquiry produce better approximations to truth than others. The current institutional structure of police forensics gives each lab a monopoly in the analysis of the police evidence it receives. Forensic workers have inadequate incentives to produce reliable...

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