What role is the private sector playing in health care provision in Jordan?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Dr Awni Al Bashir, President, Private Hospitals Association (PHA) from The Report: Jordan 2012
Articles & Analysis | A clean bill: One of the region’s leaders is looking to increase efficiency and capacity from The Report: Jordan 2012
With one of the best health care sectors in the Middle East, Jordan is the regional leader for medical tourism. Private-sector facilities host patients from both the region and further afield, and provide an important complement to public sector services. The Ministry of Health (MoH) is financially constrained – as are all public sector bodies in...
Amid the regional turbulence caused by the Arab Spring, Jordan has navigated a steady course. This is a key advantage that the kingdom offers to foreign investors, who continue to regard the country as a strong base for targeting growth markets in the region and who are stepping up their involvement in core domestic industries such as energy, health care and information technology.
With a surface area of 1.29m sq km and 2414 km of coastline, Peru is the third-largest country in South America. It has a population of 28.2m, 30.2% of which is under the age of 14. While there is no official religion, the majority of Peruvians are Christian, and the Catholic Church plays an important role in the country’s culture.
Articles & Analysis | Seeds of change: Improving outcomes is crucial to enhancing the economy from The Report: South Africa 2012
Change is expected in South Africa’s education sector over the coming years. Although the government has historically been willing to spend what it takes to make the desired improvements that are so frequently discussed in the media, such as addressing bureaucratic inefficiencies in the public sector, results have yet to materialise. Rather than...
