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Journal article

Private health insurance in Uganda: bridging the gap in public health provision?

01/02/2008

4 pages long

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This article discusses two organisations currently providing voluntary private health insurance in Uganda and considers their contributions to bridging the gap in provision in the country’s public health sector. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Case study

Case Study on the Phelang Community Centre: Facilitating multi-sectoral collaboration in Limpopo, South Africa

11/10/2007

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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Multi-sectoral collaboration is an effective strategy to achieve societal learning and change, through addressing large development issues including economic, social or infrastructure development. The strategy requires collaboration between government (the public sector or the state), businesses (the private sector) and civil society organisations. This case study aims to explore and understand multi-sectoral collaboration in the […]

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Research report

Hidden Treasure?

01/02/2007

3 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English, French

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In search of Mali’s gold-mining revenues

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Research report

Tarnished Gold

04/10/2006

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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Mining and the unmet promise of development

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A survey of micro-enterprise in urban West Africa: drivers shaping the sector

01/08/2006

13 pages long

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This article identifies some key factors shaping the micro-enterprise sector in urban French West Africa. Drawing on interviews with micro-entrepreneurs and micro-finance practitioners in Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Togo, the study explores the needs, characteristics, motivations, and success factors for micro-entrepreneurship in the region, together with some of the impediments to the growth and […]

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Issue briefing

Thailand: American Bullying Puts Pharmaceutical Company Profits before the Health of Millions

21/06/2006

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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In November 2001, at the World Trade Organisation’s 4th ministerial conference in Doha, the finance ministers of the world reaffirmed that governments are free to take all necessary measures to protect public health. That means that a government has a right to override patents in an ’emergency’. One method of doing this is through ‘compulsory […]

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Research report

Transparency Begins at Home

15/06/2006

1 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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An assessment of United States revenue transparency and extractive industries transparency initiative requirements

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Journal article

Corporate responsibility or core competence?

01/06/2005

8 pages long

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Although the concept that corporations are responsible not only to their shareholders but also for the social and environmental impacts of their activities has now entered the mainstream, pressure is still required to ensure that companies honour their public commitments. This article describes the work of the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility in harnessing the […]

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Public service privatisation and crisis in Argentina

01/06/2005

14 pages long

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This article discusses the privatisation of public services in Argentina in light of the severe crisis that afflicted the country between 1999 and 2002. An inadequate regulatory framework and the absence of effective regulatory agencies resulted in the exercise of monopolistic power over public service fees. The emergence of a series of external shocks, starting […]

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Journal article

How can the poor benefit from private investment in agricultural research? A case study from Bolivia

01/06/2005

12 pages long

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This article evaluates potential mechanisms for facilitating increased private-sector engagement in agricultural research for development and technology transfer (ARDTT), with particular emphasis on Bolivia. It reviews the mixed results of efforts, in developed and developing countries alike, to decentralise ARDTT and to encourage private-sector investment. Potential mechanisms for Bolivia are considered within three broad categories: […]

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