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Health promotion advice in the private sector

BMJ, 1994
EDITOR, - An 86 year old female patient of mine was given a cardiovascular risk assessment as a Christmas present by her family. This was done at a local private hospital and …
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Promoting Private Sector Participation

2012
As the decade of the 1980s progressed there was a growing awareness that the public sector did not have the resources to continue providing all of the programs to which it had become committed. This was particularly true at the federal level of government.
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Promotion and partnership: bilateral donor approaches to the private sector

Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 2013
Abstract Despite a renewed focus by bilateral donors on economic growth and the private sector as driving forces behind development, there has been relatively little comparative analysis of donor policies for achieving this. This article fills that gap.
Shannon Kindornay, Fraser Reilly-King
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Strategies for promoting technology transfer to the private sector

The Journal of Technology Transfer, 1987
This article discusses alternative promotion strategies that public policy makers can use to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of technology transfer programs. Three transfer strategies are described; the passive, the role-directed, and the organization-directed strategies.
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Financially sustainable investments in developing countries water sectors: what conditions could promote private sector involvement?

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 2008
A scarcity of public resources and insufficient international aid have contributed to the deep crisis that water sectors in developing countries are in, as less has been invested than is considered necessary to improve and increase their efficiency. Private investment could therefore play a crucial role in the building of new infrastructure and in the ...
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Institutional tensions and private sector promotion in Tanzania: whose agenda?

Technovation, 1999
Abstract This paper examines the current phase of transition of Tanzania's economy from state-led to market-led development, and considers the impacts of this transition on technological capabilities. The focus is on the different agendas and practices which surround private sector promotion in Tanzania, and examines these from the viewpoint of three
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Towards Integrated Strategies to Promote Private-Sector Growth

2019
The chapter summarizes the results, proposes answers to the research questions, and provides suggestions for further research.
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Concrete actions of the private sector to promote children’s health.

Appetite, 2014
The role of food industry and retailers in preventing children obesity is primarily to improve products nutritional quality and, secondarily, to collaborate in informing consumers. To this purpose, Coop has created a “Scientific Committee” with ECOG and SIO (Italian Obesity Association) and developed significant actions to promote children’s health. 1.
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Regulatory Incentives to Promote Private Sector Brownfield Remediation and Reuse

Soil and Sediment Contamination: An International Journal, 2008
Governments of growing industrial economies are faced with two substantial sources of urban environmental degradation—one from past activities and one from ongoing activities. The interior of mature urban communities often contain large areas of environmental contamination from past industrial activity.
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Economic development in the South Pacific promoting the private sector

World Development, 1993
Abstract Over the past decade the economies of the independent island states of the South Pacific have become sluggish to the point of stagnation. Despite substantial flows of overseas development assistance (ODA), national economic managers have in the past failed to adopt policies which ensured increasing prosperity.
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