____________________________________________________________________ III POPULÄRVETENSKAPLIG SAMMANFATTNING _____________________________ V ACKNOWLEDGEMENT _______________________________________________________ VII TABLE OF CONTENTS _________________________________________________________ XI CHAPTER

By all accounts, Bank, Pakistan faces increased difficulties in expanding its agricultural sector. For its part, the government is gradually withdrawing from its historical policy of direct intervention and adopting a more market oriented strategy. In this strategy, the private sector will be expected to play the major role in providing capital to the agricultural sector, with government’s rema...

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This paper provides a brief overview of the theoretical literature on how organisations provide employees with incentives to act in its interest and on the suitability of incentive schemes in different environments. Attention is drawn to areas that are appropriate to public sector organisations. A selection of relevant empirical literature is reviewed and related to the theory. JEL Classificati...

There is a continuing need for new health technologies to address the disease burdens of developing countries. In the last decade Product Development Partnerships (PDP) have emerged that are making important contributions to the development of these technologies. PDPs are a form of public private partnerships that focus on health technology development. PDPs reflect the current phase in the his...

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...

introduction: private health care providers (pps) considered a major gateway to the health services for tb (tuberculosis) patients. however, tb management practices by pps is inadequate. national tb program need to collaborate with private health care providers. this paper is aimed to provide a comprehensive management program for public private mix (ppm) in tb dots (directly observed treatment...

agricultural experts in the field of biotechnology in iran were surveyed in order to explore theirperception about factors affecting the partnership between public and private sector indeveloping agricultural biotechnology. the research population included agriculturalbiotechnology experts in the public and private sectors (n=66). a series of in-depth interviewswere conducted with some biotechn...

there are considerable debates about the existence, nature, and application of entrepreneurship within the public sector. the present survey analyzes the application of entrepreneurship in iranian public sector organizations. for this purpose, the situation of entrepreneurship within the head offices of iranian public service organizations was considered. also, based on mckeinsy and daft’s fram...