The current economic and social environment is pushing governments to transformational change in order to meet increasing public expectations of public-sector value and cost effective outcomes. Modern information and communication technology (ICT) has shown its potential to enable government service availability and delivery, but governments are relying on their agencies to create their own val...

This spring the US Congress proposed devastating cuts to the e-Government Fund, an essential source of support for data.gov, usaspending.gov and a variety of other vital resources in the US Gov 2.0/Open Data space. Sunlight was at the front lines of the fight to stop those cuts. In the process we learned important lessons about how the crisis arose, how it could be stopped, and what it means fo...

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the implementation of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) (the ‘WR Act’) and the potential impact of the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 (Cth) (the ‘Work Choices Act’) within the Australian Public Service (‘APS’) — where the Coalition government has the greatest opportunity to influence the working conditions of its own employee...

*David S. Johnson is with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Timothy M. Smeeding is the Maxwell Professor of Public Policy at Syracuse University. The opinions and conclusions are solely those of the author and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policies of SSA or any agency of the Federal Government or of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. The authors ...

For the last decade e-government research has underlined the importance of an external user perspective in public e-service development and there have been numerous attempts to provide guidance and directions for government agencies in this matter. Individual research studies show little progress in this matter, but a more generalisable picture of the current state of external user inclusion is...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of thequasi-state ownership of the stock exchange in the ratio of short-termand long-term yhay circle is one of the string str in this study usingdata from 51 companies accepted has been used in the tehran stockexchange. methods of statistical analysis in this study, the correlationof the q rgr million via software using the excel, spss18,...

based on the theoretical and empirical evidences, the most important goal the privatization is to increase the efficiency and improve the fiscal status of the government and the government enterprises. one of the key factors for implementation of the privatization policy in iran is to overcome the inefficiency and fiscal problems of the government sector. the paper studies the privatization per...

The purpose of this paper is to survey methodology of test for fiscal sustainability. The econometrical tests for fiscal sustainability have been improved since the 1980s. We introduce the methods and backgrounds of these tests. Also we apply the tests to the Indonesian and Japanese data. It is important to analyze the sustainability of government bonds consisting with the fiscal system, partic...

this paper extends endogenous growth models through augmenting it with government budget and oil revenues as well as the effect of public investment efficiency on long run growth of private and government consumption and import for an oil producing economy. based on the extracted model, the optimal growth rate of government current expenditure (or consumption) has a positive relation with the e...