This article discusses the experience of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. It also explores the relevant individual characteristics of each country of the GCC and highlights the challenges each country faces or is likely to face in implementing PPPs. This paper seeks to understand the extent to which the implementation of PPPs in the GCC has been consistent with international best practices in formulating and creating legal and regulatory frameworks for such partnerships. It adopts a comparative approach to public policy analysis to review empirical and theoretical studies of PPPs in the GCC. The article concludes that all the GCC countries follow different, and sometimes unclear, policies in implementing partnerships and that these partnerships remain limited compared to their global counterparts. It also identifies the most significant and common obstacles and challenges these countries face in creating an attractive and competitive environment in which to implement sustainable partnerships that contribute to their ambitious economic visions and accelerate their transformation from a rentier into knowledge and production economies.
Introduction To compare the impact of e-learning package and theoretical teaching on the ability of both graduate and undergraduate medical students to learn the management of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). Methods We conducted a randomized controlled blinded study at two medical schools in Wales, UK. Participants included graduate-entry medical students from Swansea University and undergraduate medical students from Cardiff University. The intervention consisted of one hour of training using an e-learning package versus an hour of lecture based teaching. The outcome was comparison within each groups and between groups of mean scores using a pre-intervention and immediate post-intervention questionnaire. Another questionnaire was e-mailed after 2 weeks and mean scores were again compared to baseline, immediate post intervention between each groups and within each groups. The hypothesis
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