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Directions for Reforms in the Health Sector: Reflections from a State in a Developing Country
(2009-09-04)
Meeting the health care needs of population goes beyond mere budget allocations. The organisation of programmes and commitment of people working in the health sector has significant bearing on sector performance and its ...
Maternal Health Financing – Issues and Options A Study of Chiranjeevi Yojana in Gujarat
(2009-08-08)
Government of Gujarat announced a “Chiranjeevi Yojana” in April 2005 to improve access to institutional delivery and at the same time provide financial protection to poor families in Gujarat. The scheme covers below poverty ...
Contracting-out of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) Services through Mother NGO Scheme in India: Experiences and Implications
(2009-08-13)
Partnership with NGOs in delivering and provision of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services through mother NGO (MNGO) in the un-served and under-served regions is one of the important initiatives in India. The scheme ...
Implications of Human Resource Practices and Other Structural Factors on Commitment of Public Medical Professionals in India
(2009-08-03)
In this paper we focus on often neglected issue and inadequately studied area of commitment of public sector health professionals and some of the issues surrounding human resources as its determinants. The paper argues ...
Provision of Reproductive Health Services to Urban Poor through Public-Private Partnerships: The Case of Andhra Pradesh Urban Health Care Project
(2009-08-13)
Andhra Pradesh had initiated the Urban Slum Health Care Project to provide basic primary healthcare and family welfare services to urban poor living in slums in 2002. As of now, the project has established 192 Urban Health ...
Challenges in sustaining a hospital: lessons for managing healthcare institutions
(2009-09-03)
One of the important components of the private health care sector has been health care facilities set up by corporate sector. The financial sustainability of these facilities is closely linked to the financial performance ...
Player Pricing and Valuation of Cricketing Attributes: Exploring the IPL Twenty-Twenty Vision
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
In April 2008, BCCI initiated Indian Premier League, a cricket tournament of Twenty-Twenty overs to be played among eight domestic teams. Team owners bid for the services of cricketers for a total of US$ 42 million. Not ...
Perception of food safety and changes in food consumption habits: a consumer analysis
(2001-10-15)
The relationship between seven types of food safety concerns and the corresponding change in food consumption habits of 236 households in Georgia, USA was evaluated. Results showed a gap between food safety concerns and ...
Degree of Instant Competition: Estimation of Market Power in India’s Instant Coffee Market
(2009-08-21)
The new competition policy of the Government of India seeks to promote competition to protect consumer interests and increase market efficiency. In fact, the degree of price transmission between farmers and final consumers ...
Dynamic effects of peanut butter brand advertising
(2000-10-15)
Using error correction approach and nonlinear three-stage-least-squares, long run and short run effects of aggregate brand advertising on the US demand for peanut butter are estimated. Results indicate that demand for ...