Essays about: "privately funded"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words privately funded.

  1. 1. Competition & R&D Subsidies: New Perspectives on the Public-Private Nexus

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Jacob Sjöberg; Carl Nordahl; [2021]
    Keywords : Research and Development; Subsidies; Policy Evaluation; Competition; Generalized Methods of Moments Estimator;

    Abstract : Using a dynamic panel model, this paper empirically examines the effect of public R&D subsides on privately funded R&D in a new light. By synthesizing the theories on public R&D support with those on the relationship between R&D and market structure, we explore to what extent R&D expenditures may depend on public funding in a non-linear, concave fashion with respect to product market competition. READ MORE

  3. 2. Election Cycles and Microfinance in the Indian States : Political Pressures, Opportunistic Election Cycles and Political Uncertainty Cycles: What Does It Do for the Indian Microfinance Sector?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Emma Gunnarsson; [2020]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : In India, election cycles have repeatedly been reported to sway the microfinance sector. Meanwhile, the sector is recognized as an important poverty fighting tool; both the largely privately funded MFI system and the largely publicly funded SHG system. READ MORE

  4. 3. Highlight the aid worker, not the poverty victim - A comparative field study of public and private aid in Ghana

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Jenny Nyström; [2016]
    Keywords : development cooperation; street-level bureaucrat; private aid; implementation; Ghana; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This study investigates whether privately funded aid projects enable a more effective development compared to publicly run, with the perspectives of local street-level bureaucrats at focus. The purpose is to highlight aid workers as much of policy is being formed and put into practice at street-level rather than policy level in developing countries. READ MORE

  5. 4. Healthcare Reform: A Microcosm and Exploration of New Public Management in China

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Baoyue Zhang; [2015]
    Keywords : New public management NPM ; public-private partnership PPP ; new institutional economics NIE ; cost efficiency; resource allocation.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The NPM is considered as an efficacious way to improve effectiveness and efficiency in management control of public health for its market-driven and market-driving characteristics. Theoretically, it is a hybrid of economics and business management in public management. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Marketisation and Privatisation of Education through the EU’s “New Generation” Free Trade Agreements? A Case Study of the Possible Consequences of Including Education into the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Louise Hoej Larsen; [2014]
    Keywords : The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership TTIP ; the European Union; trade in services; education; marketisation; privatisation; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Significant positive and negative consequences across the entire spectrum of issues are expected from the much debated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). This study investigates thoroughly the potential consequences for the education sector based on primary sources of the EU’s objectives and reflections for the TTIP negotiations. READ MORE