On the 30th anniversary of Alma-Ata, the World Health Organization published in 2008 the "Primary Health Care Now More Than Ever" Report, calling on all governments to reflect on the need to reflect on four sets of reforms. These included: (i) universal coverage reforms; (ii) service delivery reforms; (iii) public policies reforms that would ensure healthier communities; and (iv) leadership ref...

INTRODUCTION Brazil and Colombia have pursued extensive reforms of their health care systems in the last couple of decades. The purported goals of such reforms were to improve access, increase efficiency and reduce health inequities. Notwithstanding their common goals, each country sought a very different pathway to achieve them. While Brazil attempted to reestablish a greater level of State co...

Public hospitals that are directly managed by government perform poorly in many developing countries. Approaches to improving them through internal managerial reforms have failed, and effective alternatives are much needed. Policymakers are considering reforms through public-private partnerships (PPPs)--a promising but so far unevaluated approach. We present results of a successful reform in Sã...

As phrases like "managed care backlash" become part of the lexicon in American health care policy circles, it is instructive to examine a managed competition experiment in a vastly different context. Britain's Conservative government instituted reforms in 1991 to transform the National Health Service (NHS) from a centrally administered service to managed competition between purchasers and provi...

Through the lens of the theory of the firm, I examine how a series of reforms affected performance of Chinese state-owned enterprises with a panel data of more than 500 firms. The study finds that performance improved with various reforms such as increasing competition, appointing new managers, using firm-level pay sensitivity, raising marginal profit retention rates, and allowing managers to d...

This book is about New Labour’s health policy and the impact political economy has on public policy. As in other areas of the public sector, reforms based on ideas taken from the market cause reforms in the way the provision of the services is organised. When Labour came into power in 1997, the internal market was officially abandoned but important aspects of the reforms were carried out under ...

people’s republic of china has a long history of accounting and accounting reforms. this study focuses on “whether china should continue its ifrs-based domestic accounting standards or full convergence with the ifrs is more appropriate”? both quantitative and qualitative approaches are applied to answer the research question of this work. binary choice model has been used in the statistical ana...

Purpose Internal (e.g. firm performance, internal stakeholders) and external pressures globalisation, technology, corporate scandals) have intensified calls for governance reforms across varieties of capitalism. Yet, practices among developing economies remain problematic. Drawing insights from Africa’s largest economy (Nigeria) relying on the resource dependence theorisation, this study aims t...

Workplace diversity and inclusion are recognised as integral to the internal public-facing success of organizations. The games industry worldwide has been notably slow embrace reforms bri...