After three decades of privatization worldwide, has the transfer of state-owned enterprises (SOEs)'s ownership to the private sector been welfare improving? What lessons have we learned from this experience so far? And what are the possible implications of this economic policy a…
With the progression and spread of information technologies, personal information is being used innovatively to increase individual, social, and economic benefit. At the same time, the risk of invasion of privacy has also grown higher. Currently, at international governmental me…
This book debunks the myth of a dynamic private sector vs. a sluggish public sector by providing a detailed account of the role of the public sector in taking on high-risk entrepreneurial investments, from the Internet to the ‘green revolution’.
Border Management Modernization
by McLinden, Gerard, Doyle, Tom, Fanta, Enrique, Widdowson, David
This book provides border management policymakers and reformers with a broad survey of key developments in and principles for improving trade facilitation through better border management, including practical advice on particular issues. In contrast to the traditional border man…
"Accelerated Leadership Development" captures and communicates the lessons learned from successful fast-track leadership programmes in the private and public sector, and provides a model which schools can follow and customize as they plan their own leadership development strateg…
Biobanks represent an invaluable research tool and, as a result of their intrinsic and extrinsic nature, may be looked upon as archives or repositories largely made up of libraries, or collections of content where the content is the biological material derived from different ind…
Research study presenting an economic theory to describe the behaviour of private sector and public sector bureaucracys - gives economic analysis of competition; covers entrepreneurship, monopolys, and management attitudes; draws parallels between government and business regardi…
How resources are being used to fund the community response to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is of considerable interest to the donor community and governments. In the past decade, international funding for the HIV and AIDS res…