PRIVATE SECTOR

Finance

Health

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: PRIVATE SECTOR

References

• Private Sector Participation in Power Generation in Egypt: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

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Books

• Communal Infrastructure in Slovenia: Survey of Investment Needs and Policies Aimed at Encouraging Private Sector Participation (World Bank Technical) (reference)

• The Use of fiscal instruments in environmental management : a project aimed at influencing state and private sector environmental policy (reference)

• Analysis of Public and Private Sector Wages Allowing for Endogenous Choices of Both Government Union State (reference)

• Private Sector Training: Who Gets It and What Are Its Effects (Rand Report, R-3331-Dol/Rc) (reference)

• The handbook for effective job development : placing the hard-to-employ in the private sector (reference)

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Periodicals

• Public Policy For The Private Sector (reference)

• Salaries For Employees In The Private Sector (reference)

• Wages And Salaries In The Private Sector (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

A defining aspect of these AD initiatives is collaboration among NIH Institutes and with other Federal agencies, private pharmaceutical companies, and other entities in the private sector, such as foundations. (references)

These initiatives are designed to accelerate laboratory and clinical research and collaboration across the Federal Government and the private sector and to turn research results into real advances for patients, families, and caregivers. (references)

The mission of the TRCC is to enhance coordination of transplantation research and, to this end, the Committee collects and disseminates information about transplant activities at NIH and receives advice and suggestions from professional societies, the public, and governmental and private sector organizations interested in transplantation. (references)

Business

These are all operating in the private sector. (references)

They will be supplemented by private sector funds. (references)

The majority of BPM end-users are in the private sector. (references)

Children

South Africa

However, in practice Government and private sector discrimination against persons with disabilities in employment still exists. (references)

Jordan

It has placed approximately 3,660 persons with disabilities in public and private sector jobs. (references)

India

However, a survey conducted in 1999 by the NCPEDP indicated that in the public sector the figure was 0.54 percent and in the private sector 0.28 percent. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ireland

Broadcasting remains mostly state controlled, but private sector broadcasting continued to grow. (references)

Cape Verde

There was a single, private sector Internet service provider. (references)

Vietnam

The decree allows expansion of the number of ISP's, including enterprises from the private sector. (references)

Discrimination

Tonga

Nonetheless it is possible for ordinary citizens to rise to cabinet positions in government and to accumulate great wealth and status in the private sector. (references)

Hong Kong

In May the UNCESCR concluded that Hong Kong's failure to prohibit race discrimination in the private sector constituted a breach of its obligations under the ICESCR. (references)

Vietnam

This prohibition is less restrictive than in past years because of the growth in private sector job opportunities. (references)

Economic History

Kazakhstan

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), an independent U.S. government agency that provides project financing, political risk insurance, and a variety of investor services, has been active in Kazakhstan since 1994. OPIC is seeking commercially viable projects in the Kazakhstani private sector. (references)

Mexico

The Commercial Service and other organizations, such as the American Chamber of Commerce and U.S. State government offices, maintain lists of Mexican agents/distributors, manufacturers, Mexican government offices, and private sector trade organizations. (references)

Kenya

Kenya is publicly committed to an economic reform program whereby the private sector will become the engine of the country's future economic growth. (references)

Human Rights

Equatorial Guinea

Even in the private sector, many citizens claim that party membership is required in order to be hired. (references)

Haiti

A new Director of Purchasing was hired from the private sector. (references)

South Africa

The Additional Courts use private sector employees or retirees with judicial experience. (references)

Indigenous People

Jordan

Many persons of East Bank origin complain that the dynamic private sector largely is in the hands of the Palestinian majority. (references)

Indonesia

When indigenous people clash with those promoting private sector development projects, the developers almost always prevail. (references)

Minorities

Nigeria

Societal discrimination on the basis of ethnicity is practiced widely by members of all ethnic groups and is evident in private sector hiring patterns, de facto ethnic segregation of urban neighborhoods, and a continuing paucity of marriages across major ethnic and regional lines. (references)

Political Economy

Honduras

Many workers in the private sector are forced to work unpaid overtime. (references)

CHILE

Most government and private sector experts expect GDP growth in the range of three to four percent in both 2001 and 2002. Chile's economy continues to attract foreign investment; FDI during the first six months of the year totaled over three billion dollars, surpassing the figure for all of 2000. (references)

Laos

FORMALLY ANNOUNCED AND ACTIVATED IN 1988, THE NEM FIRMLY ESTABLISHED THE ROLE OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN THE LAO ECONOMY. (references)

Trade

Argentina

The legal framework in Argentina (Decree 1474/94) for standards related activities created the National System for Standards, Quality and Certification with a private sector standards organization and a private sector accreditation organization. (references)

Argentina

The MERCOSUR Standards Association, AMN (previously known as the Comite MERCOSUR de Normalizacion) --composed of the private sector standards institutes of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay-- develops and harmonizes standards. (references)

Colombia

The ADC has provided direct financing to the private sector for the development of greenfield projects in various infrastructure sectors. (references)

Travel

Bolivia

There is presently a move afoot both in the public and private sector to shift to the "hora continua", in which the lunch break is reduced to one hour, bringing the end of the day correspondingly earlier. (references)

Honduras

A large number of Honduran professionals and business executives speak English, and many high government officials and private sector leaders were educated in the United States. (references)

Kuwait

Visitors should consider purchasing short term medical insurance which includes a medical evacuation option in the event of a medical emergency which requires treatment in the U.S. Should medical care be required while in Kuwait, there are two options: the government system or the private sector. (references)

Women

Nicaragua

According to a poll released in April 2000, women comprise approximately 61 percent of the public labor force, a number much larger than in the private sector. (references)

Nigeria

The Nigerian NGO's Coalition expressed concern about continued discrimination against women in the private sector, particularly in access to employment, promotion to higher professional positions, and in salary inequality. (references)

Austria

Female employees in the private sector can invoke equality laws prohibiting discrimination of women; the Federal Equality Commission may award compensation of up to 4 months' salary if women are discriminated against in promotions because of their sex. (references)

Worker Rights

Sri Lanka

Approximately 20 percent of the nonagricultural work force in the private sector is unionized. (references)

Rwanda

Officially, government offices and private sector entities have a 40-hour workweek; the maximum workweek is 45 hours. (references)

Paraguay

The executive, through the Ministry of Justice and Labor, has established a private sector minimum wage sufficient to maintain a minimally adequate standard of living for a worker and family. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "PRIVATE SECTOR": private sector flows. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏قطاع خاص. (various references)

Danish

privat sektor. (various references)

Dutch

private sector, particuliere sector (The company sector and the personal sector together.), particulier bedrijfsleven. (various references)

French

secteur privé. (various references)

German

Privatwirtschaft (private industry), privater sektor. (various references)

Greek 

ιδιωτικός τομέας. (various references)

Hungarian

magánszektor. (various references)

Italian

settore privato. (various references)

Pig Latin

ivatepray ectorsay

Portuguese

sector privado, o sector privado. (various references)

Spanish

sector privado, la privada, la empresa privada, el sector privado. (various references)

Misspellings

"PRIVATE SECTOR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: privat sector. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: procreative, protractive, restorative, retroactive, tetrasporic, triceratops.

-3 letters: carrotiest, crepitates, evaporites, operatives, overpraise, overprices, overreacts, overtreats, privateers, procreates, protective, rectorates, resorptive, retrospect, tetraspore.

-4 letters: careerist, catteries, cavorters, corrasive, corvettes, crepitate, esoterica, evaporite, operatics, operative, operettas, optatives, oratrices, overprice, overrates, overreact, overstate, overtires, overtreat, patterers, periostea, perorates, poetaster, portative, portieres, portraits, potterers, potteries, poverties, preterits.