this paper discusses central-local relations for healthcare policy in china from a principal-agent perspective, based on schistosomiasis control. in order to control the disease, the central government produced the outline of the mid-long-term national plan for schistosomiasis prevention and control (2004-2015) in 2004. by discussing the implementation of the national outline at the provincial ...

This paper discusses central-local relations for healthcare policy in China from a principal-agent perspective, based on schistosomiasis control. In order to control the disease, the central government produced the Outline of the Mid-Long-Term National Plan for Schistosomiasis Prevention and Control (2004-2015) in 2004. By discussing the implementation of the National Outline at the provincial ...

The legacy of socio-economic injustice which was inherited from the Natives Land Act of 1913 continues to haunt the majority of black South Africans. The land dispossession of the indigenous people of South Africa under this Act caused poverty which is still prevalent in our country today. Many South Africans, especially black South Africans, are trapped in a cycle of poverty that emerged as a ...

Public sector doctor relations with their employer, soured by clumsy, inconsistent provincial implementation of long-awaited Occupation Specific Dispensation, (OSD), pay hikes and further delayed mid-level category doctors pay talks, are on a knife edge.

! Abstract China’s economic growth and transition pose fascinating questions for social scientists. In the economic realm, proponents of the market-preserving federalism (MPF) model appear to have gone too far. In reality, China’s central leadership has retained the prerogative to appoint top provincial officials as well as the power to reconfigure central-provincial fiscal relations, thus defy...