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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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Electoral accountability, fiscal decentralization and service delivery in Indonesia [PDF]
This paper takes advantage of the exogenous phasing of direct elections in districts and applies the double difference estimator to: (i) measure impacts on the pattern of public spending and revenue generation at the district level; and (ii) investigate ...
Dasgupta, Basab +3 more
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Taking forward public procurement reforms in Ghana [PDF]
, 2006 The construction industry in Ghana, like many others worldwide, has had its fair share of damning independent reviews. Huge and unsustainable foreign debt, excessive budget deficits, huge contractual payment arrears, poor construction performance ...
Anvuur, A, Kumaraswamy, M, Male, S
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Indirect Tax Reforms and Public Goods under Imperfect Competition [PDF]
This paper examines, within an imperfectly competitive environment with public goods, the welfare effects of three popular indirect tax reforms: i) a tariff cut combined with an equal increase in the consumption tax, ii) a tariff cut combined with an ...
Nikos Tsakiris, Ourania Karakosta
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Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on Transparency and Pricing [PDF]
, 2010 Presents survey results on healthcare experts' views on the importance of public access to clinical quality and price information, its role in improving health system performance, and various payment reforms and mechanisms to foster efficiency and ...
Karen Davis +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop +3 more
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The public–private pension mix in OECD countries [PDF]
This article surveys the relationship between public and private pension provision in the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. OECD.
Queisser, Monika +2 more
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Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on Health Reform [PDF]
, 2009 Presents results of a survey of healthcare experts on insurance, payment, and delivery system reforms, including a national insurance exchange with broad authority, a public plan option with a bundled payment system, and a standard benefits ...
Cathy Schoen +3 more
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