Privatizing a service sector: where to start?

Where Do We Start? Building Consensus on Drivers of Health Sector Corruption in Nigeria and Ways to Address It

Background Corruption is widespread in Nigeria’s health sector but the reasons why it exists and persists are poorly understood and it is often seen as intractable. We describe a consensus building exercise in which we asked health workers and policy-makers to identify and prioritise feasible responses to corruption in the Nigerian ...

Where to Start a Geometric Random Walk?

Administrative Reform in Bangladesh: Where to Start?

Expansion of the private, NGO, and international sectors has made administrative reform very urgent in Bangladesh. The rigidity of the government pay scale in presence of private and international pay scales has led to a bad equilibrium in the government service factor market. This bad equilibrium has led to decline in effort and quality of entrants. It has led to an unhealthy gap in official a...

Where to Start Browsing the Web?

Both human users and crawlers face the problem of finding good start pages to explore some topic. We show how to assist in qualifying pages as start nodes by link-based ranking algorithms. We introduce a class of hub ranking methods based on counting the short search paths of the Web. Somewhat surprisingly, the Page Rank scores computed on the reversed Web graph turn out to be a special case of...

Transcription. Gene expression--where to start?

then the causative SNP either has a non–tissue-specific effect on transcription, or it acts at the posttranscriptional level, an issue that remains to be resolved. Although the results are consistent with the long isoforms of BCL11A functioning to suppress HbF production in a dose-dependent manner, they do not distinguish between a direct effect on γ-globin gene expression and an indirect effec...