Focusing mainly on the United States and Latin America, we aimed to identify the constructions of social reality held by the major stakeholders participating in policy debates about global trade, public health, and health services. In a multi-method, qualitative design, we used three sources of data: research and archival literature, 1980-2004; interviews with key informants who represented maj...

We investigated the major trends in health aid financing in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) by identifying the primary donor organizations and examining several data sources to track overall health aid trends. We collected gross disbursements from bilateral donor countries and international organizations toward the DPRK according to specific health sectors by using the Organiza...

In my presentation I will highlight 5 main IT challenges which I have identified over the years as typical to International Organizations. These challenges are: (i) alignment of business and IT, (ii) innovation in static environments, (iii) the end of the era of these big IT projects, (iv) successful management and delivery of IT projects and (v) the struggle in IT security. My talk will be non...

in current dynamic and often turbulent work environment, information technology becomes an effective competitive advantage that organizations largely rely on it. due to this affiliation, the importance of integrity and accommodation between the information technology strategies and business strategies in organizations has been increased. this alliance is the initial aim of the governance of inf...

Multiactor global funds (MGFs) are emerging as important new mechanisms for the financing of development and other global priorities. MGFs like the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are distinctive because they are administered and financed by multiactor coalitions of governments, international organizations, the private sector and civil society, they operate independently of any o...

In a context of globalization, municipalities and metropolitan regions are involved in international competition to support economic growth. This leads to new forms of collaboration between public authorities and businesses, giving birth to new forms of urban and metropolitan governances. Moreover, many old neighborhoods of the central city and some districts of the old suburbs face growth in u...

discussions of islamic international law, especially privateinternational law, i.e., nationality, domicile, legal situationof foreigners, and contradiction of laws are not presentedin islamic jurisprudence under the same titles, and thismay lead to the supposition that islamic jurisprudence hasremain silent concerning such problems.the present essay intends to prove incorrectness of thatsupposi...