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Cross-Programmatic Efficiency: The System is Greater Than the Sum of Its Programs

Health Systems & Reform
Health programs play important roles in health systems, contributing to the development of best practices, guidelines, awareness, and advocacy for specific services, populations, or conditions.
Susan P. Sparkes, Alexandra J. Earle, Joseph Kutzin   +2 more
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Governing health service purchasing agencies: Comparative study of national purchasing agencies in 10 countries in eastern Europe and central Asia

Health Policy Open, 2023
This study discusses findings from comparative case studies of the governance of health services purchasing agencies in 10 eastern European and central Asian countries established over the past 30 years, and the relationship between governance attributes,
Loraine Hawkins, Kaija Kasekamp, Ewout van Ginneken, Triin Habicht   +3 more
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Conditional cash transfers to improve use of health facilities by mothers and newborns in conflict affected countries, a prospective population based intervention study from Afghanistan

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019
Background The effects of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs on maternal and child health (MCH) service use in conflicted affected countries such as Afghanistan are not known.
Karen M. Edmond, Abo Ishmael Foshanji, Malalai Naziri, Ariel Higgins-Steele, Jane Machlin Burke, Natalie Strobel, Farhad Farewar   +6 more
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Understanding Informal Financing

Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2018
This paper offers a framework to understand informal financing based on mechanisms to deal with asymmetric information and enforcement. We find that constructive informal financing such as trade credits and family borrowing that relies on information ...
Franklin Allen, Meijun Qian, Jing Xie
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What One Can Learn From the Initial Public Offering of Google? A Twenty-Year Excursion to the Venture Capital Industry [PDF]

Over the past two decades the venture capital industry became a major focus for the financial media. With potential for high rates of return, this industry attracts entrepreneurs looking for opportunities to invest.
Emanuel Shachmurove, Yochanan Shachmurove   +1 more
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The Financing of Innovation: Learning and Stopping [PDF]

This paper considers the financing of a research project under uncertainty about the time of completion and the probability of eventual success. We distinguish between two financing modes, namely relationship financing, where the allocation decision of ...
Dirk Bergemann, Ulrich Hege
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Financing sustainable energy for all: pay-as-you-go vs. traditional solar finance approaches in Kenya [PDF]

, 2014
This paper focuses on finance for Solar Home Systems (SHSs) in Kenya and asks to what extent emerging new finance approaches are likely to address the shortcomings of past approaches.
Byrne, Robert, Ockwell, David, Rolffs, Paula   +2 more
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Financial institutions and the wealth of nations: tales of development [PDF]

, 2003
Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation).
Tong, Jian, Xu, Chenggang
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BASES OF STATE SUPERIOR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FINANCING FROM ROMANIA [PDF]

This study concerning state superior educational system financing comes to emphasize the main state superior educational system financing forms from Romania, looking forward to find new future state superior educational system financing forms.
Bene Gheorghe Florin, Cosma Dorin, Schneider Suzana   +2 more
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THE FORECASTING OF THE REGIONAL MARKET VOLUME OF THE HIGHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PAID SERVICES

Статистика и экономика, 2016
The article discusses the ways to define the volume indicators of paid services market in higher professional education by the means of constructing a demand function.
Sergey B. Lapshinov
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