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Delivering on the Promise: A State Guide to the Next Steps for Health Care Reform [PDF]
, 2010 Outlines recommendations and considerations for creating health insurance exchanges, lowering costs and improving quality, providing consumer protections, addressing reforms beyond the federal law, and offering state-level public ...
Larry McNeely +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy +2 more
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Expenditure reform in industrialised countries: a case study approach [PDF]
This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight case studies of ambitious reform episodes.
Hauptmeier, Sebastian +2 more
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Investing in Sustainable Energy Futures: Multilateral Development Banks' Investments in Energy Policy [PDF]
, 2010 Analyzes MDB loans for electricity projects and lays out policy reforms, regulations, and institutional capacities needed to enable public and private investment in sustainable energy and ways for MDBs to address them consistently and ...
Athena R. Ballesteros, Smita Nakhooda
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow +9 more
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SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM AND THE SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION [PDF]
The provision of pensions for the old and public education for the young represent a large share of public budgets. In most Western countries, current Social Security systems are under a big financial stress.
Guadalupe Valera, Iñigo Iturbe Ormaetxe
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Reforming Health Care Delivery Through Payment Change and Transparency: Minnesota's Innovations [PDF]
, 2010 Examines Minnesota's healthcare delivery system reforms, with a focus on legislation that included a health improvement program and enhanced coverage for the low-income uninsured.
Ann Cullen, Anne Gauthier
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton +2 more
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Good Governance in Public Administration from the Perspective of the Political Factor
Acta Universitatis Danubius: Administratio, 2009 In its process of adhesion to the European Union, Romania was absolutely compelled to follow a wide process of local and central public administration reform that would correspond to theadhesion criteria established by the Union in view of acquiring the ...
Gina Goga
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Latin American Unions and the Reform of Social Service Delivery Systems: Institutional Constraints and Policy Choice [PDF]
Recent policy debates on the reform of social service delivery systems focus on the decentralization of services and the introduction of competition in order to improve the quality of services.
Maria Victoria Murillo
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