Over the last decade, many developing countries have embarked on large education reforms aimed at rapidly expanding the supply of education, achieving equity in the provision of education, and significantly improving the quality of education. Some of these reforms have been far-reaching, transforming the budget priorities of many countries and altering in a fundamental way the manner in which g...

The reconstitution of a special Imperial Sanitary Department is undoubted]}7 an important step as emphasising the determination of the Indian Government to pay special attention to sanitary matters and obtain the best available advice regarding subjects affecting public health. The best feature of the new order of things is, I think, the resolve to organise research laboratories in the chief ce...

The allocation of production across firms is a potentially important explanation of the productivity gap between rich and poor economies. Reforms to trade policy and the domestic financial sector are often both key elements of policy packages aimed at reducing productive distortions. However, the impact of each reform in reallocating production within an economy is usually analysed independentl...

Structural reforms that reduce product and labor market markups in peripheral Europe by 10 percentage points can improve competitiveness in that region and boost unionwide output by almost 5%. If implemented during a crisis that takes the nominal interest rate to its lower bound, however, these reforms have short-run contractionary effects of more than 1% on impact, thus deepening the recession...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the reform syndrome, bottle-neck effects and their impacts on teachers and school education in the last ten years and highlight the direction of new developments. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines educational reforms in Hong Kong in the last decade. Findings – Echoing the international trends of educational reforms, Hong Kong, as an internatio...

111. Structural reforms and economic performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 A. Role of market reforms in the catch-up process . . . . . . . . . 186 B. A slow improvement in socio-economic infrastructures . . . . . . 194 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

after reza khan took power and established a powerful central government, the way was paved for planning reforms in iran. among these reforms was the improvement of the status of women, which tried to make iran similar to the west. this goal accounts for the removal of hijab and changing the appearance of the people. in the present study, through library research, the authors investigated how p...

recognizing the advantages of primary care as a means of improving the entire health system, this text comments on reforms of publicly funded primary health centers, and the rapid development of private forprofit providers in sweden. many goals and expectations are connected to such reforms, which equally require critical analyses of scarce resources, professional trust/motivation and business ...