This paper examines the challenges and opportunities facing the agricultural biotechnology sector as it works to sustain innovations and further propagate its benefits into the new century. We survey the milestones of technological, legal, and economic precedence in this area and discuss institutional mechanisms for public and private partnership that can help agricultural biotechnology fulfill...

Following early success with a number of high-profile partnerships, WHO is increasingly working with the private for-profit sector. In so doing, the organization finds itself in the maelstrom of a vibrant debate on the roles of public, civic, and commercial entities in society and on the appropriate modes of interaction among them. This paper examines WHO's involvement with the commercial secto...

BACKGROUND An estimated 214 million women have unmet need for family planning in developing regions. Improved utilization of the private sector is key to achieving universal access to a range of safe and effective modern contraceptive methods stipulated by FP2020 and SDG commitments. Until now, a lack of market data has limited understanding of the private sector's role in increasing contracept...

Forrest (2012) outlines the potential challenges inherent in learning lessons from the private sector and adopting good business principles — such as being accountable and cost-effective — while still meeting patients’ demands. There will be a reliance on the positive engagement of staff in delivering these changes — whether in statutory, private or third-sector services. Staff need to be part ...

Background: Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) sponsored Public Private Partnership (PPP) is undermined by poor participation by private practitioners (PPs).There is an urgent need to realizefactors influencing private practitioners’ preference of directly observed treatment short course (DOTS) for their patients. We attempted to study the knowledge and current practice chara...

BACKGROUND Public hospitals can privatize management activities by contracting with a private organization or person to perform the work. Management contract is a method which uses private sector for major government projects like hospitals. This study evaluates contract management in health care institutes of developing countries. METHODS Information has been collected by reviewing the manag...

Objective:Privatization is considered as one of the most important components of new public management with its pros and cons. However, privatization has been accepted and implemented as a policy in the whole political and economic system of Iran, but the barriers and dysfunctions of privatization policy implementation has reduced its effectiveness and efficiency in solving the problems of the ...