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Efficiency and equity are cornerstone concepts in rational service delivery in the public sector. This paper benchmarks efficiency and equity in public spending on health, education and social protection in a broad group of Asian Development Bank (ADB) member economies with varying levels of...
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The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market share has been quite stable for decades, for-profit chains have grown in share and influence in the United States. By contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other...
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growth. Most of the studies surveyed show that privatization enhances privatized firms performance, efficiency, and … frameworks. Partial privatization may be beneficial in countries with weak institutions, namely, the French civil law countries … to economic growth. Overall, privatization allows firms to achieve improved efficiency while driving the development of …
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We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The...
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Occupational licensing is among the fastest-growing labor market institutions in the U.S. economy. One of the key features of occupational licensing is that the law determines who gets to do the work. In those cases where universally licensed occupations are both complements to and substitutes...
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Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) is the privatization programme which was embarked upon under the guise that the development … analyze the effect of privatisation of utility like water to poverty reduction in Africa and found that water privatisation in … most African countries instead of reducing poverty aided its escalation through its attendant high costs which has affected …
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Many developing countries are searching positive impacts on the efficiency, equity and quality provision of the public services through increasing competition and active participation of the private sector, considering public-private partnerships (PPPs) as the appropriate instrument to attain...
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Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains … unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first … is sensitive to indicator definitions, the overall results are robust and lend support to the view that poverty reduction …
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