February 2008
Opportunities to invest in public infrastructure will increase during
the next few years, but so will competition for deals.
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January 2008
Affordable care, preventive medicine, and healthy behavior must be the pillars of India’s health care reform.
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November 2007
Addressing Africa’s health workforce crisis is a formidable task. Yet McKinsey’s experience in the region suggests ways to make headway.
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October 2007
Sheila Dikshit discusses the challenge of urban development in India.
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October 2007
Ian Davis, managing director of McKinsey, talks about the public-sector productivity imperative.
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April 2007
Public-private partnerships represent a significant opportunity for private investors—but pose worrisome risks as well.
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December 2006
By correcting some flaws, global health partnerships can save even more lives in desperately poor countries.
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October 2006
Governments face a productivity imperative because the public wants better services, but not higher taxes.
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July 2006
To fend off attackers, incumbent postal services must learn to act more like private businesses.
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June 2006
Governments at all levels must deliver more for less. The principles of lean manufacturing offer surprisingly apt solutions.
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June 2006
Productivity is rising, but the level of employment among working-age people actually declined from 1992 to 2003.
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February 2006
Indonesia and Sri Lanka faced the monumental task of rebuilding once their immediate needs were met. Their experience could help other countries respond to disasters.
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November 2005
Deals with foreign partners can open the door to overseas profits.
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September 2005
A renewed effort to train and attract public-health professionals will ease a chronic shortage and improve health care.
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August 2005
The shortfall in qualified health care workers could be offset by higher productivity and better recruitment and training.
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December 2004
The government must give a performance-based system space to take hold.
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November 2004
To pay for the care of the elderly, developed societies face plummeting levels of public services for everyone else—and soaring taxes. Productivity could be the answer.
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November 2004
Traditional public-sector organizations can be redesigned to perform more successfully—even when market forces are lacking.
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August 2004
Bus and train systems habitually run at a loss. But public-transit agencies could lower costs and raise the quality of service by emulating best practices from around the world.
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August 2004
The head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Indian initiative on AIDS explains the importance of creating a vast network of public-private partnerships to tackle the problem.
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May 2004
Foreign companies must carefully choose the projects they undertake in China if they hope to make reasonable returns.
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December 2003
The region’s governments can’t afford to provide quality health care for everyone. Hospitals must get creative to make up for the shortfall.
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December 2003
Multinationals are directly affected by the global epidemic. It can’t be controlled without them.
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November 2003
Liberalization is coming and Europe needs to get ready—fast.
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August 2003
Warfare will surely be transformed. But how, and by whom?
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December 2002
To survive in the European Union, telecom incumbents in Eastern Europe must streamline their operations on all levels.
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May 2002
By offering comfort and convenience to people willing to pay for them, nonprofit hospitals could finance better care for everyone.
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December 2001
If South Korea is to become one of the world’s most economically advanced nations, educated women will have to play a larger role in its workforce. The first step is getting the government to take childcare more seriously.
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December 2001
Governments and international organizations could reduce the financial risks borne by the developers and marketers of vaccines—and thereby make them cheaper and more plentiful.
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July 2001
Public funding for the arts leads to more than just a vague cultural improvement; it yields concrete—and enormous—economic benefits.
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July 2001
A customer-focused reorganization of the Illinois Department of Human Services provides lessons for other public-sector and nonprofit agencies about how to improve efficiency and service.
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June 2001
Electronic government can provide faster, more convenient, and more accurate services that will improve the lives of the people.
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February 2001
Many Europeans think that employment agencies help businesses circumvent strict employment protection laws and cannibalize permanent jobs. But a McKinsey survey found otherwise.
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February 2001
Europe should spend less of its limited defense budget on recruiting and training troops and more on equipping them for modern warfare.
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February 2001
Bogota is reforming its transportation system. All aboard!
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June 2000
McKinsey’s Amsterdam office teamed up with health care experts to find a way of preserving the quality of Holland’s health care system while easing the great strains it faces.
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November 1999
The European record on joint defense procurement is weak, yet the arguments in favor of more collaboration are strong. The solution: projects should be led by industry, not by government.
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November 1997
Several industry structures are possible. Railroads need to shape, adapt, choose a niche, or sell out.
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May 1997
A new study establishes the case for improving productivity. It’s time to recognize that regulation has not preserved incomes, provided access to services, or prevented job losses. An analysis of six industries: automotive, housing construction, telecom, retail banking, retail, and computer software.
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August 1996
The cozy monopolies that postal operators have so long enjoyed are gradually being prised apart by deregulation, while new forms of communication are starting to erode traditional markets.
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November 1995
$400 million could be saved per year. Charleston, Richmond, and Omaha have shown how. Rather than regulate, the federal government could share best practice.
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May 1994
At the level of individual business enterprises, the real work of reform in China has just begun.
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