Disguising Trade in Development Partnerships
Public-private partnership (PPP) once christened to improve on quality and economic efficiency of public services in developed countrie s, is now widely promoted as a development tool that could ensure basic social services in LDCs. Th is paper analyses the doctrine of PPP and the application of various models to LDCs health delive ry systems. It examines different types of PPP arrangements including in international trade, othe r economic arrangements, development PPPs and domestic health initiatives. Examples are drawn fro m LDC countries especially Sierra Leone, to illustrate the practice of respective health PPPs a nd regulatory challenges inherent in complex PPP mix. A crucial issue is the appropriateness of mark eting 'Public-Private for profit partnerships' as a development mechanism for health delivery in poor countries. The paper recommends a more pro- active role for LDC governments in the design, impl ementation and surveillance of health PPPs as essential in achieving health development goals.
Private Finance : Are Private Loans and Charitable Giving Replacing Aid?
Private financial flows to developing countries, such as debt,equity, remittances, and private charitable giving, have increaseddramatically over the past 20 years. One commentator has eventrumpeted the privatization of foreign aid. Since privatecharitable giving remains small and developing country governmentsare borrowing more, not less, from official sources, this claim ismisleading. But unprecedented sums are indeed flowing to theprivate sector in developing countries.
The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism
* Introduction: The Arab Spring: The End of Postcoloniality * 1. Decentering the World: How the Arab Spring Unfolded * 2. Towards Liberation Geography * 3. A New Language of Revolt * 4. Discovering a New World * 5. From the Green Movement to the Jasmine Revolutions * 6. The center cannot hold * 7. The End of Postcolonialism * 8. Race, Gender, and Class in Transnational Revolutions * 9. Libya: The Crucible * 10. Delayed Defiance * Conclusion. The People Demand the Overthrow of the Regime