Market Forces, Privatisation and Prisons: A Polar Case for Government Policy

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 77-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian A. Roper
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Market Forces

scholarly journals Provision of child and adolescent mental health in-patient services in England between 1999 and 2006

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (12) ◽  
pp. 454-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne O'Herlihy ◽  
Paul Lelliott ◽  
Debbie Bannister ◽  
Andrew Cotgrove ◽  
Hannah Farr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Adolescent Mental Health ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Only Children ◽  
Inpatient Services ◽  
Bed Numbers

AIMS AND METHODIn 1999, child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) in-patient provision was unevenly distributed across England. A repeat of a1999 bed count survey was conducted in 2006 to determine whether change had occurred in response to government policy.RESULTSTotal bed numbers in England were found to have increased by 284; 69% of the increase is due to the independent sector, whose market share has risen from 25% in 1999 to 36% in 2006. Regions with the highest number of beds in 1999 have increased bed numbers more than areas with the lowest number of beds in1999 (8.3 v. 3.6 beds per million population). In units that admit only children under the age of 14, there has been a 30% reduction in beds available (123 to 86).CLINICAL IMPLICATIONSInequity in provision of CAMH inpatient services has increased despite government policy to the contrary. We speculate that this might be partly due to fragmented and local commissioning, and the effects of market forces operating as a result of increasing privatisation.

Transformation of the Agrifood Industry in Developing Countries

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Reardon ◽  
C. Peter Timmer
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Growth Path ◽  
The Past ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Rapid Transformation

Over the past 30 years, the agrifood industry in developing countries has been undergoing rapid transformation in structure and behavior. These changes have been driven by both market forces and government policy, particularly foreign direct investment, and have the potential to affect farmers and consumers; the former via increased incomes and modernized technologies, and the latter via cheaper and safer food. This article examines the transformation of the agrifood industry in developing countries, focusing on the sector’s three segments: retail, wholesale, and processing. It first looks at the factors that drive the transformation of the industry and its procurement systems/supply chains that are shared across the segments. It then considers the “symbioses” among the three segments, highlighting how they reinforce each other and enter preferred supplier relations with one another. It also discusses emerging impacts of the above transformations on farmers as well as small and medium enterprises. Finally, it describes programs that promote linkages for a faster, more integrated, and more inclusive growth path for these transformations over the next decade.

Environmental equity in the vicinity of Amsterdam Airport: The interplay between market forces and government policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 699-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanneke Kruize ◽  
Peter P. J. Driessen ◽  
Pieter Glasbergen ◽  
Klaas (N.D.) Van Egmond ◽  
Ton Dassen
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Environmental Equity ◽  
Market Forces

scholarly journals COVID-19: How community businesses in England struggled to respond to their communities’ needs

2021 ◽  
pp. 026909422110560
Author(s):  
Mandy Gardner ◽  
Don J Webber ◽  
Glenn Parry ◽  
Peter Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Age Related

Economic policies tend to downplay social and community considerations in favour of market-led and business-focussed support. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for greater and deeper social cohesion and local social support networks while highlighting that an overreliance on market forces can create social problems at times of need. Community businesses (CBs) are not for profit organisations that provide services and produce goods where the profit (or surplus) is reinvested back into that community. This article explores why CBs in England responded in a variety of ways to the COVID-19 pandemic, assesses what government policy did to help and hinder their place-based operations, and explores the observed socioeconomics of their age-related volunteer staff churn. Some CBs were ravaged by the consequences of the pandemic and associated government policies with many becoming unsustainable, while others evolved and augmented their support for and services to their communities, thereby enhancing their community’s resilience. We highlight how adjustments to government policies could enhance the sustainability of CBs, making them and the communities they serve more resilient.

Patterns: Rosamond Lehmann

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vike Martina Plock
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Fashion Magazines ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Rosamond Lehmann

This chapter analyzes the role of fashion as a discursive force in Rosamond Lehmann’s 1932 coming-of-age novel Invitation to the Waltz. Reading the novel alongside such fashion magazines as Vogue, it demonstrates Lehmann’s awareness that 1920s fashion, in spite of its carefully stylized public image as harbinger of originality, emphasized the importance of following preconceived (dress) patterns in the successful construction of modern feminine types. Invitation to the Waltz, it argues, opposes the production of patterned types and celebrates difference and disobedience in its stead. At the same time, the novel’s formal appearance is nonetheless dependent on the very same tenets it criticizes. On closer scrutiny, it is seen to reveal its resemblance to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927). A tension between imitation and originality determines sartorial fashion choices. This chapter shows that female authorship in the inter-war period was subjected to the same market forces that controlled and sustained the organization of the fashion industry.

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