Background The Government of Romania commissioned international technical assistance to help unpacking the causes of arrears in selected public hospitals. Emphases were placed on the governance-related determinants of the hospital performance in the context of the Romanian health system.   Methods The assessment was structured around a public hospital governance framewor...

Nepal's efforts to decentralize its governance date back to over half a century. These efforts remained incomplete due to different reasons including administrative responses and political development affecting its implementation. The Local Self Governance Act (LSGA), 1999 envisaged, for the first time, to decentralize governance in the health sector through devolution of responsibilities, auth...

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since at least the Great Depression, there is significant variation in the cross-section of stock returns of large banks across the world during that period. We use this variation to evaluate the importance of factors that have been discussed as having contributed to the poor performance of banks during the credit cri...

The flood governance of Huaihe River has a long history. Especially after the establishment of New China, the state has invested huge funds in water conservancy projects, but the problem of Huaihe River flood has not been fundamentally solved. On the basis of previous studies, the reasons for the Huaihe River flood, among which the root causes of the Huaihe River floods are the poor access of t...

Systematic differences in the organizational forms of nonprofit and for-profit entities have elicited a variety of concerns that remain largely unaddressed. Specifically, the nonprofit sector is characterized by weaker monitoring mechanisms and potentially more severe agency problems relative to their for-profit counterparts, due in large part to an absence of shareholders in nonprofit organiza...

As is the case elsewhere in Asia, urbanization is growing at a rapid pace in Bangladesh. With the increased urbanization, the basic amenities of life are not expanding for the urbanites. Rather, the increased populations have been exerting continuous pressure on the existing limited facilities. The poor, who constitute a large portion (45 per cent) of the urban population, are the principal vic...

The Greater Sahel is one of the world’s most troubled regions. Within region, Mali regional lynchpin and has been focus French efforts to eradicate terrorist groups. essay seeks answer question, “Why violence increased cells continued thrive in despite international efforts?” Although issue more complicated nuanced, corruption poor governance are significant factors violence. Local leaders on m...

There is a number of models and strategies for improving the quality of care such as total quality management, continuous quality improvement and clinical governance. The policy of clinical governance is part of the governments overall strategy for monitoring, assuring and improving in the national health services organization. Clinical governance has been introduced as a bridge between manager...

• Empowerment of the poor is one ingredient in effective poverty reduction. • A demand-driven participatory approach enhances effectiveness and efficiency. • Accountability is the central lever for participatory governance. • Capacity building is necessary for making participatory governance a reality. In its research activities, the Development Centre aims to identify and analyse problems whos...

About 40 years ago, Luther Christman, PhD, RN, FAAN, wrote about an autonomous nursing organization where nurses would be empowered to control their nursing practice. His idea was an early framework for shared governance. As a young doctoral student, I explored shared governance as a concept; I became increasingly frustrated trying to understand what it was. Many organizations adopted what they...