MEASURING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNMENT POLICY: CONTROLLING LOCAL GOVERNMENT IDLE FUND

e-Government in Greece: Opportunities for Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Local Government

Currently in Greece, the Operational Programme for the Information Society (OPIS) is promoting ICT in the public sector. However, a content study of Greek government websites reveals that at local level e-government has generally not progressed beyond the information presentation stage. The findings of an online survey of government employees and interviews with key government officials suggest...

E-Government For Small Local Government Organizations

The Italian National Centre for Information Technology in Public Administration (CNIPA) introduced the concept of Local Alliances for Innovation (ALI) as the tool for the inclusion of small municipalities in the spread of E-Government in Italy. Based on the CNIPA’s definition, the paper discusses the concept of ALI as an organizational model that can be resorted to in order to reduce the admini...

Measuring Government Inclusiveness: An Application to Health Policy

This paper examines the issue of government inclusiveness—i.e., the extent to which a government can be characterized as “pro-poor”—within the context of inequalities in the health sector. The paper discusses different ways of measuring government inclusiveness and argues that benefit incidence analysis comes closest to measuring the extent to which a government can be characterized as pro-poor...

Mergers and Government Policy *

It has long been thought that government antitrust policy has an effect on aggregate merger and acquisition activity, but the empirical support for this hypothesis has been weak and inconsistent. This paper uses a new empirical specification and a new dataset on mergers and acquisitions to provide support for this conjecture. Regression analysis shows that government policy has a significant in...

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