Private tutoring (PT) has been a growing economic phenomenon in South Korea for many years. This study investigated the determinants of the demand for PT in South Korea. Data were collected from 45 proportionally stratified South Korean high schools, and 3,605 questionnaires were analyzed using the Heckman two-stage sample selection correction method. Additionally this study exploited the local...

The Australian workplace has emerged as an important venue for influencing the health of employees through regulations and behaviour change programs. Recent surveys have highlighted a growth in this activity but the effectiveness of these programs in changing unhealthy work practices and policies is questionable. The need for strengthening programs by stronger designs and evaluation, and addres...

In this research, a model is designed to assess the effect of banking facilities over private sector investment. In this model, private investment is a function of non-oil GDP, and with a time lag, of import of capital goods, investment of public sector and the real facilities granted by the banking system to the private sector. The effects of the model indicate a meaningful effect of the ...

This paper attempts to examine the potential viability of the so-called public-private partnership in fighting international terrorism. In the spirit of ‘rentseeking’ approach, a simple model of public-private cooperation is developed, enabling us to identify the weaknesses and strengths of such operation. In testing the potentials of the scheme and in measuring the extent of rent-seeking, the ...

conclusions regarding the control of aggressive behaviors, paying attention to male, young students living in dormitory, especially in non-governmental universities has the highest priority. results a total of 381 (47.2%) male and 428 (52.8%) female students participated in the study. mean (sd) age of the respondents was 21.79 (2.86) years. overall mean aggression score (sd) in the students was...

the health sector, a foremost service sector in nigeria, faces a number of challenges; primarily, the persistent under-funding of the health sector by the nigerian government as evidence reveals low allocations to the health sector and poor health system performance which are reflected in key health indices of the country.notwithstanding, there is evidence that the private sector could be a key...

background public and private health sectors both play a crucial role in the health systems of low- and middleincome countries (lmics). the tuberculosis (tb) control strategy in india encourages the public sector to actively partner with private practitioners (pps) to improve the quality of front line service delivery. however, ensuring effective and sustainable involvement of pps constitutes a...

making capital and investment is the main driving forces of economic development. based on the investment sensitivity to the changes of some of macro-economic variables and risk and uncertainty, the present study evaluated the effective factors on investment in private sector in iran during 1980-2007. at first, the uncertainty variables of real informal exchange rate, nominal interest rate and ...