The aim of the recent healthcare reform was to increase the sustainability of healthcare finances, by reducing its negative impact on employment and increasing cost-effectiveness via enhanced competition. Higher budget contributions will help decouple healthcare finances from labour income a...

Growth in healthcare spending by provinces and territories has been accelerating over the last four years as governments continue to overshoot their budget targets, says a report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Healthcare Spending Overshoots a Threat to Sustainability,” author William B.P....

In light of the many discussions advocating the use of pay-for-performance and performance budgeting, this paper argues that discouraging experience with both approaches should temper expectations that performance measurement can be a reform that will make health care systems more "sustainable"...

Petroleum discovery in a country presents its policy makers with a challenging and complex task: formulating and agreeing on policies that will shape the country's petroleum sector and guide the translation of the newly discovered resources into equitable and sustainable economic and social...

Every oil producing nation is confronted with a complex and fundamental ethical dilemma. On the one hand, there are moral arguments for the nation to use the petroleum resource for the benefit of society and make it available for countries who do not have this natural resource endowment. On the...

Introduction -- Algeria -- Angola -- Azerbaijan -- Brazil -- Canada -- China -- Cyprus -- Egypt -- Equatorial guinea -- Ghana -- Iran -- Kenya -- Lebanon -- Libya -- Mozambique -- Nigeria -- Norway -- Qatar -- Timor -- Conclusion

Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Petroleum Value Chain and Governmental Policies: An Overview -- The Petroleum Value Chain -- Measuring Value Creation -- Creating Value -- Sector-Specific Policies --...