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Private-to-private corruption [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
The cases of corruption reported by the media tend almost always to involve a private party (a citizen or a corporation) that pays, or promises to pay, money to a public party (a politician or a public official, for example) in order to obtain an advantage or avoid a disadvantage.
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Private and Quasi-Private Standards

2021
Abstract This chapter discusses the concept of private and quasi-private standards in the environmental domain. While many of these standards involve the labelling of compliant products, others do not. The chapter begins by defining the concept of private and quasi-private standards, examining their rise and the reasons for this.
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This Is Not Private

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016
"This Is Not Private" is an interactive empathic portrait, which explores the possibilities of empathy as a meta-language through the most powerful physical interface which is our face. An algorithm tracks and calculates the empathic level between the actor and the viewer.
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Nordic privatization and private healthcare

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2003
AbstractThe role of the private sector in public healthcare systems is much debated, but there is little research to inform the debate. In the Nordic countries the extent and type of private sector involvement is largely unknown and the changes and the consequences have not been studied.
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Private Life, Private Interest, Private Property

Russian Social Science Review, 1992
There are words and concepts that almost automatically trigger bitter discussions in our country. And among them are the terms in the title of this article. True, there are occasional attempts to tone down the bitterness of the disputes surrounding them by using the more ideologically "neutral" terms "personal" or "individual." But the dispute is of ...
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How Private Is Privatization?

Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, 1993
Privatization is never a simple matter of transferring public assets to the private sector, because elected politicians cannot afford to be market dependent. Rather than allowing free entry or free exit from the marketplace, governments offer incentives and impose restrictions in order to meet the political necessities of their moment.
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Privatization, private equity and executive remuneration: privatizing QinetiQ

Public Money & Management, 2010
The process of modernizing the UK's public sector over the past 30 years has relied on significant amounts of privatization. Initially this was controversial, but by the time Labour came to power in 1997 even top secret defence establishments were subjected to selective marketization and sell-offs. This article explores the privatization of part of the
Andrew Massey, Gil Shidlo
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Private Banks and Private Banking

2016
Private banks have been defined as banks whose owners are also their managers and whose legal form is that of a partnership. This chapter emphasizes their continued relevance from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, even though they became increasingly marginalized from the 1870s.
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Privat bleibt privat

kma - Klinik Management aktuell, 2014
Es kommt im Klinikalltag vor, dass Chefärzte punktuell die Behandlung ihrer Privatpatienten delegieren. Doch das birgt rechtliche Risiken.
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