Background Public and private health sectors both play a crucial role in the health systems of low- and middleincome countries (LMICs). The tuberculosis (TB) control strategy in India encourages the public sector to actively partner with private practitioners (PPs) to improve the quality of front line service delivery. However, ensuring effective and sustainable involvement of PPs constitutes a...

Background Health expenditures are divided in two parts of public and private health expenditures. Public health expenditures contain social security spending, taxing to private and public sectors, and foreign resources like loans and subventions. On the other hand, private health expenditures contain out of pocket expenditures and private insurances. Each of these has different effects on the ...

the present research studies how material and non-material factors could attract people to work in public and private sectors. the study focuses on the effect of financial incentives on better performance in the workplace, as well as the importance of wages, job security, authority, and job satisfaction in both the public and the private sectors. research subjects are all public and private sec...

The fields of social choice theory and mechanism design deal with the aggregation of conflicting preferences in a group of agents, may they be electronic or human. Two central problems in these areas are the social choice problem and the mechanism design problem. We argue that the protection of individual preferences has not been considered so far and introduce the preference protection problem...

Economists most frequently contribute to public policy analysis through efforts to identify government's proper goals (the domain of welfare economics) and to guide the allocation of resources across, competing claims (the domain of cost­ effectiveness analysis). Yet a complementary and equally important analytic task is to inform the choice and management of means. Once retraining for trade­ d...

The newly elected Labour government has pledged to ‘reinvigorate the Private Finance Initiative’, as part of the new emphasis on ‘public/private partnerships’ in the delivery of core public services. This article assesses the merits of using private finance to deliver public services against three criteria: whether it will lead to additional investment in social infrastructure, whether it repre...

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