From about the mid 1980s, Australia has sought to improve the performance of its markets and industries by actively implementing a program of microeconomic reform. It was recognised that there was a plethora of distortions which had the effect of promoting inefficient performance, and the reform program was directed towards removing these distortions. These reforms held the promise of significa...

Due to regulation linking budgeting to performance and other government initiatives, government agencies need to quantify the benefits of proposed business strategy. This need can be satisfied by discrete event simulation. This paper details the approach used on a recent government project to assess the impact of proposed changes to a system and to provide a business case for change. The benefi...

The government has placed increasing regulations on child care over the last few decades. Until recently, informal care providers, those who care for only a few children in their home or the children's home, have been exempt from these regulations. Concerns over quality have led many states to consider increased regulation of this part of the child care market when government subsidized funding...

This study analyzed the position of the Federal (Brazil), State (São Paulo), and municipal (Bauru, São Paulo) governments, civil society representatives, the regulated sector, and research associations concerning issues with fluoride content in foods. Analysis of the interviews (N = 15) used a qualitative methodology (collective subject discourse theory). Various central ideas were identified, ...

Various biophysical and socio-economic impacts may be associated with unconventional oil and gas (UOG) extraction. A vulnerability map may assist governments during environmental assessments, spatial planning and the regulation of UOG extraction, as well as decision-making around UOG extraction in fragile areas. A regional interactive vulnerability map was developed for UOG extraction in South ...

We explore whether Rotterdam city has the governance capacity in terms of processes at place, and the attention in terms of vision and strategy to take up an integrated approach toward urban resilience. We adopt an interpretative policy analysis approach to assess the dynamics of urban ecosystem governance considering interviews, gray literature, and facilitated dialogues with policy practition...

This article addresses the complex question of whether gun control should be regulated by the federal or state government , or by some combination of both. In a thorough look at the history of federal and Maine state gun control— and at the various ways the issue of gun violence can be framed—Harwood concludes that neither level of government has a clear mandate to regulate exclusively. Rather,...

The aim of this article is to identify Urgency the Law Privacy Data Protection in Developing E-Government Policy Indonesia. This Research focused on important effect policy e-Government development. problem analized with theory corcening e-Government, trust dimension and Protection. data collected based desk study will be analyzed by Qualitative methods. Article conclude that there an urgency l...

Abstract This article explores the cooperation of government and private sector to tackle ethical dimension artificial intelligence (AI). The argument draws on institutionalist approach in philosophy business ethics defending a ‘division moral labor’ between governments (Rawls 2001; Scheffler Munoz-Dardé 2005). goal main contribution this is explain how can provide guidelines AI industry highli...