Healthcare Reforms and Governance Concerns

Health governance and healthcare reforms in China.

This article examines the role of health governance in shaping the outcomes of healthcare reforms in China. The analysis shows that the failure of reforms during the 1980s and 1990s was in part due to inadequate attention to key aspects in health governance, such as strategic interactions among government, providers and users, as well as incentive structures shaping their preferences and behavi...

Globalisation, Governance Reforms and Development

COVID-19: A Window of Opportunity for Positive Healthcare Reforms

The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is testing healthcare systems like never before and all efforts are now being put into controlling the COVID-19 crisis. We witness increasing morbidity, delivery systems that sometimes are on the brink of collapse, and some shameless rent seeking. However, besides all the challenges, there are also possibilities t...

Corporate governance reforms around the world and cross-border acquisitions

Article history: Received 17 May 2013 Received in revised form 27 May 2013 Accepted 30 May 2013 Available online 10 June 2013 This paper provides comprehensive, detailed documentation of major corporate governance reforms (CGRs) undertaken by 26 advanced and emerging economies. We investigate whether these reforms have altered investor protection (IP) and impacted corporate investments. Specifi...

Governance Reforms in Public Administration and Good Governance Applications in Sports Administration

From the beginning of 1980s on, a transformation period that has affected almost all of the public administrations in the world and made a radical innovation on the basis of traditional public administrations, new expectations in the public transportations have come up especially with triggering of global dynamics. Because deficiency of constant slowing down bureaucratic structure of traditiona...