rural sustainable development is one the most important components of achievement to sustainable development in a national scale which is not doable without using an efficient management. therefore, recognizing the problems ahead of local management in the scale of various geographical regions of the country and attempting to solve them by using proper course of actions could be instrumental. i...

The paper deals with an empirical attempt to apply a variant of King’s model of optimal local government size. The debate on local government amalgamation has been particularly intensified by the economic crisis from 2008 that imposed dramatic pressures towards reduction of government expenditures. Despite the fact that the focal point of ongoing and future reforms are fiscal savings, there is ...

Quebec's government recently withdrew its proposal to impose a form of user fees for health care. The decision to withdraw was likely correct, and Quebec and other provinces may learn, from the proposal's flaws, how future reforms could be more successful.

E government has often been associated to New Public Management reforms, and as consequence often conceived as tools to improve service delivery and efficiency in the public sector. Following similar assumptions the Italian Ministry of Justice has launched a number of e-government projects to reorganize the judiciary. Results have been mixed. To discuss these results the paper introduces the no...

The compliance-integrity continuum is the dominant framework for conceptualizing approaches to ethics management. This article proposes extending it in the form of a fourfold typology inspired by grid-group theory. An application to gift policies shows how the typology can support managers in their creative search for an appropriate approach. It also shows how the typology helps to avoid the de...

BACKGROUND To quantify extent of catastrophic household health expenditures, determine factors influencing it and estimate Fairness in Financial Contribution (FFC) index in Georgia to establish the baseline for expected reforms and contribute to the design and fine-tuning of the major reforms in health care financing initiated by the government mid-2007. METHODS The research is based on the n...

In 1999, foreign direct investment in China was $40.4 billion, a sharp drop from the $45.6 billion of FDI in 1998. Government officials and economic analysts have voiced concerns about a further contraction of FDI and about the economic consequences associated with such a contraction. The substantial concessions—for example, over foreign equity holdings in the service sector—the Chinese governm...