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Rwanda, led by its Ministry of Health, was the first African country to implement Performance- Based Financing (PBF) nationwide in its health centers and hospitals. The country then went on to pilot RBF interventions at the community level. Rewarding community members who provide and use...
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Verification in results-based financing (RBF) mechanisms is one of the key differentiators between it and related health financing structures such as social health insurance. Verifying that providers have achieved reported performance in RBF mechanisms is considered a crucial part of program...
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deliver innovation in formats. Globally, the television industry is entering into the post-broadcasting era where audiences … China, as it both challenges old statist models and presents new opportunities for content innovation. This thesis discusses … marketplace and how it plays an important role in improving innovation in many aspects of the television industry. The thesis …
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Growth launched its “Southern Innovation Initiative” noting that “The South’s competitiveness relies on establishing a … culture of innovation – the ability to continuously invent and bring high value products and processes to the global … marketplace. Technology is the primary tool for innovation.” Thus, the fundamental question for the 2006 policy research project …
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The mechanism of subnational regional and urban economic development has been studied extensively by economists, geographers, town planners and other academics. The existing widely varying theories of regional economic development are insufficient on their own in explaining how a region can...
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In just about one decade – of which the most recent five years were plagued by the global economic crisis – the EU - China bilateral trade developed swiftly and vigorously, by almost 400%, to become one of the most important commercial flows in global trade, with daily exchanges exceeding 1...
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, discusses research and development trends, demand, production, subcontracting, competition, etc.; investigates the impact of … electronics Innovation on small scale industry, the international division of labour and on developing countries. Bibliography and …
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Recent studies on productivity growth show how competition affects innovation and TFP growth in OECD countries, but do … not explicitly account for sectoral parameter heterogeneity. This paper examines whether competition and innovation have a … innovation activities of sectors. The same is true for competition and labor productivity growth. The empirical evidence …
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