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Health Care in Sri Lanka : What Can the Private Health Sector Offer?
Govindaraj, Ramesh; Navaratne, Kumari; Cavagnero, Eleonora - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This review represents an attempt to bridge the significant knowledge gaps on the private health sector in Sri Lanka, and foster a dialogue on opportunities for collaboration between the government and the private sector. It accomplishes this through a systematic collection and analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933622
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Essential Characteristics of the Controller-job description in German Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Ruda, Prof. Dr. Walter; Martin, Prof. Dr. Thomas A.; … - Keleti Károly Gazdasági Kar, Óbudai Egyetem
The present study tries to indicate the essential characteristics of the job description of a controller in German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Therefore new empirical data have been collected in the years 2003-2006 by questioning controllers in German enterprises. By the use of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704225
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CONSIDERATIONS AND PROPOSALS ON THE PUBLICSECTOR ETHICS AND GOOD GOVERNANCE - The Strategic Role of Control From the Perspective of Accountability
COMITE, Pr Ubaldo - In: Global Journal of Strategies, Governance & Applied Economics 3, 2, pp. 68-79
strategic role of control from the perspective of accountability. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationships that …
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Viewpoint: governing the governance of the governors: Motivating accountability at the top of public organizations
Nordberg, Donald - In: Evidence-based HRM: A Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship 2 (2014) 1, pp. 114-114
affected tensions in accountability and director motivation. The changes involve greater emphasis on extrinsic goals … bay forces that push in opposing directions to accommodate demands for greater accountability while sustaining the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814527
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Circuits of power and accountability during institutionalisation of competitive tendering in public sector organisations: A field study in public care of the elderly
Mutiganda, Jean Claude - In: Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management 11 (2014), pp. 129-145
sector organisations and effects on accountability among public decision makers. Design/methodology/approach -The study used … accountability for total costs of public services depends on how public officials use management accounting and control systems to … organisational outflanking within the circuits of power to analyse and explain the finding of ceremonial accountability. Research …
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Reprioritizing Government Spending on Health: Pushing an Elephant Up the Stairs?
Tandon, Ajay; Fleisher, Lisa; Li, Rong; Yap, Wei Aun - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in...
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Bad Translation or Double Standards? Productivity and Accountability Across the Private, Public and Voluntary Sectors
Stein, Janice - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
development; and the problems in maintaining of full accountability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481814
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From community to public ownership: a tale of changing accountabilities
Fowler, Carolyn J; Cordery, Carolyn J - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 28 (2015), pp. 128-153
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine changes in accountability as the provision and control of education … suggested that the differences between public sector and private sector accounting and accountability are not always sharply … difference in accountability. While theory suggests that public sector accountability should enhance democracy, the party best …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122243
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Why Do Some Countries Spend More for Health? An Assessment of Sociopolitical Determinants and International Aid for Government Health Expenditures
Liang, Li-Lin; Mirelman, Andrew J - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
show that democratic accountability has a diminishing positive correlation with GHE, and that levels of spending are higher …
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Governance performance in integrated coastal management: Sri Lanka country report
De Silva, Sanjiv; Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali; … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
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