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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Private contractors"”.
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Legitimacy in Conflict Contexts: Shifting Rebel Engagement in Sierra Leone and the Presence of Private Contractors
… groups increasingly challenge state rule while private military and security companies (PMSCs) increasingly enter conflict spaces on behalf of a variety of actors, including states seeking to suppress insurgencies. This case study of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) during Sierra Leone’s …
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THE USE OF PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY COMPANIES BY BUSINESS ENTERPRISES: ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY.
… operating in a risky place and retaining a private military and security company. Imagine now that, while rendering military/security services, the private contractors commit crimes against humanity with the help of the firm’s directors and the host State’s public officials. Who is …
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Accountable to beneficiaries? : the modern development enterprise & its contractors at war : lessons on accountability from Afghanistan to inform the contracting reform agenda
… and proposed accountability mechanisms for private development and security contractors coming out of the human rights, public administration and anti-corruption fields. These three fields were selected because first, they directly shape the policy discourse around contractor accountability. …
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Business valuation of location-specific infrastructure projects in data-poor regions
… framework may affect the business value when private contractors bear key uncertain risks, such as demand changes and construction cost overruns.
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War Markets: The Neoliberal Theory and The United States Military
… the need for military presence has not. The private war industry has begun to pick up the slack and private contractors have increased in areas needing military support. In Iraq, contractors make up the second largest contingent force, behind the U.S. military. Blackwater, or currently Xe …
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Outsourcing And The Pupil Transportation Industry In Minnesota: An Economic Evaluation
Private participation in the provision of public services is often promoted as a means to reducing production costs in the public sector. In this study, I test this result using a twelve-year panel dataset of 343 public school districts in Minnesota. The voting behavior of residents in the state’s …
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Building capacity and integrating training, education and experience: the Fire Learning Network's Prescribed Burn Training Exchanges
… between nongovernmental organizations, private contractors, landowners, and government agencies. This study evaluated the training model and assessed outcomes using surveys, interviews, focus groups, and participant observation. I found that the participants are very satisfied with the …
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Analysis of Solid West Management Process: The Case study of Temeke Municipal in Dar es Salaam.
… management researcher recommends to engage more private contractors in order to manage collection and disposal of solid waste generated daily in Temeke , encouraging informal sector participation and the development of technological innovations for solid waste management. And awareness on solid …
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Opening the black box of outer space : the case of Jason-3
… including bureaucratic agencies, academics, private contractors, political bodies, other satellites, the sun and even gravity. This paper will focus on these actors and the work that they did to form the network, showing a glimpse of the entangled connections that eventually produced JASON-3. …
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Fuel tank corrosion impacts on future fleet readiness
… "MAC-MO" contracting strategy that relies upon private contractors to produce accurate work specifications. A proxy for new work discovery, "contract change requests" were assessed for both legacy cost reimbursable and current fixed-price contracting strategies. The results showed a promising …
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An analysis of diatoms as biological indicators of water quality in rivers of the Western Cape
… Affairs and Forestry. Local authorities and private contractors are also responsible for conducting water quality tests for reporting purposes. In most cases, samples are collected by hand at predetermined sites and intervals across the country, and are tested for a standard set of parameters …
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Access to primary music education in Aotearoa New Zealand
… and itinerant teachers, in addition to private contractors, children and their parents. Data were thematically analysed, revealing the intricacies of how the policy technologies of neoliberalism operate in schools. To understand generative mechanisms that impact children’s access to …
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The dynamics of accountability in public sector reforms
… argued that relocating powers and discretion to private contractors involve a trade-off between democratic accountability and efficiency. However, there is limited empirical evidence of how contracting out shapes accountability or is shaped by alternative democratic or administrative forms of …