Search Results - "public sector"

Working in health financing and managing the public sector health workforce / by Vujicic, Marko

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Analyzing the distributional impact of reforms a practitioners' guide to pension, health, labor markets, public sector downsizing, taxation, decentralization and macroeconomic modeling.

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Is fiscal policy the answer? a developing country perspective /

“…Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Public sector governance.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Beyond the annual budget global experience with medium term expenditure frameworks.

“…Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Public sector governance.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Pharmaceutical reform a guide to improving performance and equity / by Roberts, Marc J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Using the flagship framework to reform pharmaceutical policy -- Introduction to the pharmaceutical sector -- Ethics and priority setting in pharmaceutical reform -- Diagnosing performance problems and developing a policy response -- Managing the politics of pharmaceutical policy reform -- Financing the pharmaceutical sector -- Paying for pharmaceuticals -- Organizing the public sector to improve pharmaceutical performance -- Improving pharmaceutical performance through regulation -- Using persuasion to influence pharmaceutical use -- Conclusions.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Opening doors gender equality and development in the Middle East and North Africa /

Table of Contents: “…-- Religion is too simplistic an explanation -- Oil endowments alone cannot explain the paradox either -- Social norms and the legal framework limit women's agency -- Social and cultural norms constrain women's roles outside the home -- Evolving norms and the invisible hand of marriage -- Equality under the law and its enforcement is critical for women's agency -- Legal systems differ widely and derive from multiple sources -- Legal constraints to women's agency in MENA -- Economic incentives dampen participation in the workforce -- A social contract underpinned by a generous but costly welfare state -- Extensive public sector employment with generous compensation -- Generous subsidies encourage women to stay at home -- State regulation and intervention in the market -- Heavy investment in education, but not the kind that businesses want -- Unequal access to entrepreneurship opportunities -- The time for reform is now -- Aspirations are changing -- As education levels increase, female labor force participation will likely increase -- A demographic gift? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view