Countries coming out of crises have found it easier to achieve macroeconomic stability than to create a basic legal, institutional, and regulatory framework, simple and flexible enough, to support the creation of local jobs and entrepreneurship and attract foreign direct investment. Since most countries start reconstruction from a very weak fiscal situation, and spikes of aid are short-lived, g...

As much as by luck as by design, China stumbled onto an export and foreign investment strategy that has proved remarkably successful, helping the economy move quickly to a market-based system. But can the Chinese experience serve as a model for other countries? After three decades of inward-oriented trade and foreign investment policies, in 1979, China switched course and launched an "open-door...

Exports have become an increasingly important source of revenue for both national and regional firms in the United States. U.S. exports are rising rapidly, especially from the Midwest. As a result, national and district firms must be ever more attentive to changes in U.S. export markets. One such change is the rapid growth of U.S. export markets in the developing nations of East Asia and Latin ...

Regarding the fiscal constraints and management difficulties of public hospitals, several countries have used public private partnership model to improve their health facilities. Public private partnership enables using public resources and private investment and expertise in a combined structure. Moheb hospital is the first Iranian hospital managed according to public private-partnership. The ...

New technologies are critical to enhancing agricultural productivity and reducing poverty in many developing countries. While public-sector investment in research has historically driven technological change in agriculture, recent trends suggest that the public sector’s role may not be as significant in the future. There is much optimism about the private sector’s capacity to deliver new techno...