Tag: Privatization

Free Download Håkon Solbu Trætteberg, "Privatization of Early Childhood Education and Care in Nordic Countries "
English | ISBN: 3031373529 | 2023 | 200 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book explores the increasing role of private providers in early childhood education and care (ECEC) as they become a core part of the Nordic welfare model―one that once rejected for-profit involvement in public welfare. Within this context, ECEC has become the key battleground over private providers’ role in the welfare system. Chapters compare five Nordic countries: Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, to discuss possible benefits from having different types of providers―public, nonprofit, and for-profit―in the welfare mix. To conclude, the authors also provide a comparative perspective on governance of the ECEC sector and on the development and functions of the Nordic welfare model.

Free Download Vandana Shiva, "Water Wars: Pollution, Profits and Privatization"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 074531838X | PDF | pages: 180 | 56.0 mb
An examination of the many controversial appropriations of nature by private concerns, from the rain forests to the gene pool.

Free Download Large-scale Privatization via Auctions: The case of land in transforming economies By Jocelyn Braun (auth.)
1998 | 172 Pages | ISBN: 3824467771 | PDF | 5 MB
Successful large-scale privatization programs for highly political resources such as land require the consideration not only of economic but also of ethical aspects. On the basis of a game-theoretic framework of analysis, Jocelyn Braun shows that the mechanism of auctioning is an efficient and equitable alternative to many privatization methods that have so far been implemented with disappointing results. The author presents a solution concept and – using Bayesian mechanism design – expands the current theoretical and practice-oriented literature in the light of transformation.

Free Download Anita Chary, "Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism: Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala"
English | ISBN: 1498505376 | 2015 | 226 pages | EPUB | 1396 KB
Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism is the first collection of its kind to explore the contemporary terrain of healthcare in Guatemala through reflective ethnography. This volume offers a nuanced portrait of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people, who have historically endured numerous disparities in health and healthcare access. The collection provides an updated understanding of medical pluralism, which concerns not only the tensions and exchanges between ethnomedicine and biomedicine that have historically shaped Maya people’s experiences of health, but also the multiple competing biomedical institutions that have emerged in a highly privatized, market-driven environment of care. The contributors examine the macro-structural and micro-level implications of the proliferation of non-governmental organizations, private fee-for-service clinics, and new pharmaceuticals against the backdrop of a deteriorating public health system. In this environment, health seekers encounter new challenges and opportunities, relationships between the public, private, and civil sectors transform, and new forms of inequality in access to healthcare abound. This volume connects these themes to critical studies of global and public health, exposing the strictures and apertures of healthcare privatization for marginalized populations in Guatemala.

Free Download Geographies of Globalized Education Privatization: International Perspectives
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031378520 | 364 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 20 MB
This book explores the complex and various forms that privatization of education takes on a global scale at different ages of schooling. Through the spread of neoliberal policies in education both in the global North and the global South, the book suggests that this process is leading to new forms of schooling and socio-spatial dynamics linked to the creation of increasingly competitive school markets. The book highlights some of the main issues that such competition generates by focusing on the acceleration of the segregative processes on one hand but also on the alternatives that are emerging regarding this global context on the other hand. It considers processes of domination, hegemony, but also exclusion and segregation, eventually exploring contradictions inherent to societies. It presents innovative empirical and conceptual research by international scholars from the fields of social geography, sociology, history and demography in the United States, Lebanon, France, Afghanistan and Chile, thereby transcending disciplinary boundaries. Developed in under or unexplored contexts, the book broadens the reflection to social representations, individual and collective strategies, adaptation, innovation and also resistances.