From 1990 to 2011, contraceptive use in Ethiopia increased ninefold and the total fertility rate fell from 7.0 to 4.8. These are two dramatic illustrations of a family planning success story that has emerged over the last two decades and is still emerging. What are the main elements of this success? We posit that the four most significant factors are: political will, generous donor support, non...

The key role of transport infrastructure in the emerging European network has provoked many questions as to the financing of new infrastructure. In the course of the twentieth century govemments in all countries have assumed responsibility for financing transport infrastructure. In the past decade, however, serious doubts have been expressed on the efficiency of a strong public financial involv...

HIV prevalence in the Niger Delta of Nigeria is generally attributed to concurrent sexual partnerships and weak public sector health care and education systems. This paper examines the likelihood of additional factors, such as the intersection of widespread poverty, migration, and sex work, as contributory channels of HIV transmission in the region. To explore this issue, we conducted a Delphi ...

A brief look at the evolution of the public management system in New Zealand shows the need for further reform. Two periods in its history are highlighted: the emergence of a classic bureaucratic model in the early 20th century, followed by the managerial reforms in the 1980s and 90s. They laid the groundwork for future development, but also show the current constraints against which public ser...

This paper explores situations where tenants in public houses, in a specific neighborhood, are given the legislated right to buy the houses they live in or can choose to remain in their houses and pay the regulated rent. This type of legislation has been passed in many European countries in the last 30–35 years (the U.K. Housing Act 1980 is a leading example). The main objective with this type ...

This paper reviews the significance of e-Governance in Aviation Industry in general and the Indian scenario in particular. Primarily, this discusses about the features of e-Governance and the growth that lay ahead through the electronic media. It also analyses the various stages of development – in Public as well as Private sector – and, at the end, gives a laconic comparative study. The age-ol...

Teaching and learning about business organisations and the environment in which they operate is contained within a curriculum but context and events in which they operate is constantly changing. In responding to this context one solution is to construct and use case-studies, but these are (a) time-consuming and expensive to produce (b) need constant up-dating (c) may be unsuited for classrooms....

This paper reviews the significance of e-Governance in Aviation Industry in general and the Indian scenario in particular. Primarily, this discusses about the features of e-Governance and the growth that lay ahead through the electronic media. It also analyses the various stages of development – in Public as well as Private sector – and, at the end, gives a laconic comparative study. The age-ol...

This paper deals with the issue of how the use of a plan can improve change management when introducing groupware in the public sector, using an improvisational perspective. The research is based on an empirical study at a municipal administration investigating changes in the work situation after the implementation of groupware. When an improvisational model of change management was applied cer...