This astonishingly fast growth made private PHC centers the major provider of PHC services in Lebanon and has motivated the public sector to contract with a number of private centers for the provision of publicly funded PHC.
Reciprocal access to the lucrative sector of government contracts is a potential deal-breaker.
Factors, such as rigidities in the labor market, an inefficient financial sector, and a lack of contract enforcement, have limited Mexico's capacity to benefit from its reforms and therefore hindered the country's economic growth (Kehoe and Ruhl 2010).
The risk of a sharp increase in food inflation is one of the concerns keeping Beijing from doing more to stimulate the economy, even as the vast manufacturing sector shows signs of contracting.
The data set provides information about the entire labour history of workers, for instance the exact duration of each employment and unemployment spells, the firm's sector of activity, the type of contract held, the wages measured as contribution bases, etc.
The report indicated the services sector of the economy is contracting, as the 44.6 figure fell well below the 53.0 estimate and a neutral reading of 50.
More widely, the government is to create a Data Strategy Board from data users, which will be responsible handling the public sector contracts of the Public Data Group.
"If you consider that the cost of tendering for public sector contracts is now more than 4% of contract value, most contractors will be fulfilling these contracts at best at break even and at worst at a financial loss.
Chris Williamson, of Markit, warned the sector could contract in the third quarter if falling export orders and weaker domestic demand persist.
Substantial falls in new orders, export orders and backlogs of work suggest the sector may contract even more in the coming months.
Since last April, the private sector has won 37% of contracts – hardly a convincing argument either way.
