We also express our gratitude to Bahir Dar health institution workers, especially for maternal health care workers who helped us to deliver valuable information.
When the country was dominated by large, established institutions, workers were, often implicitly, guaranteed job security and comfortable benefits.
In the absence of such stimuli, history suggests that catch-up will be a long, difficult grind, built on slow improvement in institutions and worker skill levels.
But the legacy that Mr. Moore was most proud of, according to his son, George Moore of New Canaan, Conn., was transforming the caliber of the institution's workers.
The horrible phrase used by people like me is a "multi-stakeholder model" of governance in which those with an interest in the flourishing of the institution, like workers and users, are organised and sit on the board.
This is a common practice elsewhere in the country's corrupt and ramshackle public institutions, where workers are prepared to forfeit most of their meagre official pay in return for the opportunities for side-earnings that state jobs offer.
Gramsci resisted the tendency to reduce Marx's theory to economic terms, focusing instead on the way in which the "hegemony" of the ruling classes over schools, churches, the media, and other cultural institutions encouraged workers to acquiesce in their exploitation.
02 September 2011 A Senate hearing highlights the split between institutions' and workers' interests.
Working people should not have to suffer for the mistakes of unscrupulous financial institutions, and workers demand that this broken system be fixed.
But there exists one obvious and inconvenient solution that the global health community can no longer afford to overlook: Make development research more accessible to developing countries' policymakers, institutions, health workers and communities.
