Political Connections and Non-Traditional Investment: Evidence from Public-Private Partnerships in Vocational Education

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Urban Housing in Nigeria: Evidence from Ogun State

There is a consensus among housing experts and policy makers that there are not enough resources for government alone to address growing urban housing challenges in many developing countries. Consequently, a paradigm shift from government provision to partnerships between the public and private sectors is advocated. This study examined the prospects and challenges of Public-Private Partnerships...

Non-State Providers and Public- Private-Community Partnerships in Education

Public Private Partnerships in Vocational Education and Training: International Examples and Models

Introduction As Kazakhstan faces making investments in their extensive vocational education and training system, there are important forces driving the vocational education and training system in Kazakhstan to bring employers more actively into the educational process. The first reason to engage employers is to improve system level governance, to engage social partners in planning for vocationa...

Social Networks as Platforms for New Public-Private Partnerships in Technical and Vocational Education

A knowledge society cannot be constituted with millions of people kept technically illiterate and vocationally disengaged. India with more than a billion people has an elaborate public system of imparting technical and vocational education, which, however, suffers from a mismatch with expectations of the market as also from the inability to address issues related to traditional artisan skills. ...

Political Connections and Related-Party Transactions: Evidence from Iranian Firms

The present study aims to investigate the association between political connections and related-party transactions for the firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). Sample includes the 485 firm-year observations from companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2013 to 2017 and research hypothesis was tested using multivariate regression model based on panel data.We fin...