Transparency has become a buzzword in contemporary literature of Planning. However, it is NOT a well-constrained concept. This term is defined differently from different fundamental positions (Sen 1999; Stiglitz 2003; Florini 2007). Public private partnerships in infrastructure development are popularly known for offering transparent planning process. This study argues that transparency is narr...

Many countries today have large inefficient public sector that are producing goods and services that could be bought from non-governmental providers. These countries could benefit from greater private sector participation both factor markets (production of inputs) and product markets (provision of services). Moving from a public sector monopoly to a more effective balance between public and pri...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND There is a highly inequitable distribution of health workers between public and private sectors in South Africa, partly due to within-country migration trends. This article elaborates what South African medical specialists find satisfying about working in the public and private sectors, at present, and how to better incentivize retention in the public sector. METHODS ...

background india’s health sector witnessed some major policy changes in 1990s that aimed at making health services more accessible to the population.   methods in this paper, i tried to present some preliminary results of the significant changes that occurred between 1995/6 and 2004, especially in relation to the question of access to healthcare for the poor and rural population using data from...

in almost all countries around the world (developed as well as developing countries) the public sector economics has been growing very rapidly and caused the share of government expenditures in gdp to rise over time. although in recent years, especially from the end of 1980, for different reasons especially privatization the trend of public sector growth has been slowed, but the factors behindt...

This paper considers the determinants of male and female pay in the public and private sectors by estimating a joint model of sector allocation and wage determination using cross-sectional data from the Egyptian 1987 and 1997 labour force surveys. A model of compensating wage differentials is defined and estimated, in order to quantify the value of arguably the three most important non-pecuniar...