Cultural diversification and educational reform in Russia ;

Diversification in Response to Market Reform

Rational expectations dictate that firms respond to shifts in the hospital payment system as a result of health sector reform. To determine the impact of system reform on levels of hospital diversification and operating ratio for 88 teaching hospitals and 88 community hospitals during the period 2005 – 2010. The 44 teaching hospitals are matched with 44 other teaching hospitals experiencing the...

2 Educational Reform

Fraternity and Educational Reform in Latin America

The author proposes that in a democratic society, education serves to establish fundamental relationships of fraternity, generating the “social capital” that bonds citizens together. Against this perspective, he examines the cultural values transmitted in the educational systems of six Latin American countries. He finds that following world-wide trends, the curricula have shifted from privilegi...

role of cultural iran in promotion of multilaieralism in central asia and caucasus

cultural iran is a scope that is more extended than the political territories of iran as a political unit. this concept means that cultural geography(mehdi moghanlo-1383-1) of iran is greater than its political geography which, according to history, has a long history extending west-east from kandahar to the euphrates and north-south from the persian gulf to the caucasus including transoxiana a...

An Update on Reform in Eastern Europe and Russia

The paper reviews the experience of Poland and Russia with economic reform, with occasional comparison to China’s experience. The author argues that macroeconomic chaos in Poland and Russia preceded reform and was allayed by reform; that there is no necessary tradeoff between reform and growth, and that the Polish and Russian experience shows that it is possible to create clear property rights ...