Childcare for Sale: Mapping Private Institutions in Sweden 1900–1975

Establishment and Operations of Private Banks & Credit Institutions in Iran

After the revolution of 1979, all of the private banks existing in Iran were nationalized and the economic system was based on public, cooperative and private sectors and banking operations were categorized in public sector. Consequently, private sector and foreign banks were bared from doing banking operations in Iran. According to the recent laws and regulations passed in Iran, the Irani...

Experimental Evidence of a Private Childcare Voucher

[preliminary – do not quote without permission] Abstract: This paper uses a large-scale experiment to estimate the effect of vouchers for childcare on the mothers' labour force participation and the use of childcare in Finland. The private childcare voucher acted as a significant boost for new childcare entrepreneurs to enter the market thus increasing the overall childcare provision in the mun...

State and private institutions

Positioning children and institutions of childcare in contemporary Uganda.

Currently more than half the population of Uganda is under 18 years - a demographic dispensation caused by civil war, poverty, high fertility rates, and the AIDS epidemic. Drawing upon ethnographic research in south-eastern Uganda, the study analyses the difficulties of integrating increasing numbers of adolescent orphans and other vulnerable children into Ugandan society. Aid workers and resea...

Tough choices: private sale of drugs in public hospitals.