the objective of present research was to analyze environmental scores in companies whenadopting external social policies. we confirmed that location acts as a differentiating factor. we also analyzedthe human rights, community and product responsibility policies interaction with environmental scores. ourfirst hypothesis stated that social policies contribute to orientate companies toward enviro...

there are many reasons for the health inequities that we see around the world today. public policy and the way society organises its affairs affects the economic, social and physical factors that influence the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age - the social determinants of health. tackling health inequities is a political issue that requires leadership, political cour...

The debate on causes and consequences of social capital has been recently complemented with an investigation into factors that erode it. Various scholars concluded that diversity, and racial heterogeneity in particular, is damaging for the sense of community, interpersonal trust and formal and informal interactions. However, most of this research does not adequately account for the negative eff...

After an unprecedented period of macroeconomic stability, growth and employment creation between 2003 and 2008, Latin American economies are facing the post 2008-2010 global crisis with the challenge of a jobs-centred recovery. The two previous decades had put behind the role of the labour market as a central social welfare generator. The eighties were identified as the “lost decade” because of...

As online social media have become a global phenomenon, popular sites have been translated into many languages. However, since many social media sites rely on crowdsourced translation, privacy-critical pages are not always translated into all languages in which the sites are offered. In this paper, we examine whether or not privacy settings, privacy policies, and terms of service pages have bee...

Social justice is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society. This relation will assay by the government, according to fair distribution of opportunities and facilities. After 20 century, there was always emphasis on the role of states as social justice's agents in society by formulating and implementing of policy. The main question is what is the place of social ju...

Introduction The goal of this paper is to reflect the theoretical and methodological knowledge and experience gathered during more than ten years of work of the Center for Social and Economic Strategies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague (CESES) on holistic social forecasts, visions and strategies of the Czech Republic’s development in the contexts of globalization and Eu...

Abstract—Arising problems of countries’ public finances, social and demographic changes motivate scientific and policy debates on public spending size, structure and efficiency in order to meet the changing needs of society and business. The concept of sustainable development poses new challenges for scientists and policy-makers in the field of public finance. This paper focuses on the investig...

The dominant view today is of a global knowledge-based economy, driven by the application of new technologies, accelerating the shift to high-skilled, high-waged European economies. This view is reflected in the expansion of higher education and the key role of higher education in national and European economic policy. The Lisbon agenda seeks to make the European Union ‘the most competitive and...