We argue that China’s journey towards a market economy is far from being finished. Instead, in many areas, reforms have been delayed and economic problems accumulated. There are six major reforms that have to be accomplished in the near future in order for the economy to stay on the trajectory of growth. Meanwhile, the current reformers face more and bigger challenges than their predecessors, i...

Many countries have recently enacted or proposed reforms aimed at increasing the availability of information on the quality of some public sector services. Transparency has been a buzzword among international organizations and public sector reformers. For example, the disclosure of school and teacher quality has generated a heated public debate. In the United States, No Child Left Behind Act (N...

The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, to hold increases in national health expenditures to no more than long-term economic growth, recommends a set of synergistic provider payment reforms, consumer incentives, and systemwide reforms to confront costs while improving health system performance. This approach could slow spending by a cumulative $2 trillion by 2023—i...

The realisation of technological innovations has often been associated with the presence of a champion who performs the imperative functions of transformational leadership, facilitation, and endorsement of different technical projects. This study investigates the role of project champions in electronic Government (e-Government) integration initiatives in local government domain. In this context...

INTRODUCTION There is a growing public perception that serious medical error is commonplace and largely tolerated by the medical profession. The Government and medical establishment's response to this perceived epidemic of error has included tighter controls over practising doctors and individual stick-and-carrot reforms of medical practice. DISCUSSION This paper critically reviews the litera...

The Government of India needs to take some hard decisions in the upcoming Union Budget for 2000-01. There are several reasons why it is important to do so right now. India's political system is more than ever in consensus about the basic direction of reforms. The current government enjoys a strong electoral mandate. This is the first year in office for this government, and is, therefore, the mo...

Since the 1970s Sweden’s dual-earner model of family policy has gradually been strengthened by expansions of public day-care, extended earnings-related parental leave and individualised income taxation of spouses. Sweden has become a central case for comparative gender policy analysts and aspects of these policies have become a point of reference for policy makers in other advanced welfare stat...

there are two ground approaches for explaining the type of administrative reforms in every country. the first approach searches creating factors of administrative reforms inside every country. but the second approach assigns diffusion of administrative reforms ties in countries to the international and global factors. relying on the second theoretical framework, this qualitative research tries ...