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IN-WORK POVERTY IN LATVIA

2019

The results of a survey carried out in Latvia in 2015 are examined to estimate the scope and depth of in-work poverty. The widely used EU-SILC data considerably underestimate in-work poverty in Latvia. Logistic regression analysis indicates that persons with low education, poor health, persons of pre-retirement age, and those employed in non-standard work arrangements are more likely exposed to a high in-work poverty risk. Social transfers and the income of other household members do not significantly reduce this risk. The Latvian government should provide adequate social protection and funding to alleviate the in-work poverty problem.

Probing Public Opinion: the State of Valencia Experience

1997

This paper summarizes the procedures which have been set up during the last years at the Government of the State of Valencia, Spain, to systematically probe its public opinion as an important input into its decision processes.

Assessing congestion in emergency obstetric care in public hospitals in Tamil Nadu

2018

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess congestion as the simultaneous occurrence of desirable health output (e.g. maternal admissions) along with undesirable output (e.g. still births (SB)), in emergency obstetric care settings of public hospitals in Tamil Nadu. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on a cross-sectional data set of 97 public hospitals collected by the statistical cell of Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project for the year 2013–2014. The study uses three inputs – beds, doctors and nurses; three desirable outputs – maternal admissions, neonatal admission and live births; and four undesirable outputs – SB, intra-uterine deaths, neonatal deaths and maternal deaths.…

Affordances and effects of introducing social media within eParticipation-Findings from government-initiated Indonesian project

2018

La Fuerza Multilateral y la multiplicidad nuclear en la OTAN (1960-1965)

2017

Desde finales de la década de 1950 y hasta 1965, el gobierno de Estados Unidos (EEUU) promovió la creación de una fuerza naval armada con misiles balísticos, conocida como Fuerza Multilateral (Multilateral Force, MLF), con tripulaciones multinacionales y bajo mando de la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN). La propuesta inicial de la administración Eisenhower trataba de satisfacer las quejas de algunos miembros de la OTAN acerca del monopolio que EEUU ejercía sobre la defensa nuclear de Europa. Aunque oficialmente se buscaba proporcionar un papel activo a los países europeos, en particular Alemania, en la estrategia nuclear conjunta, con la MLF los EEUU confiaban en inducir …

European Politics of Food Origin. A Semiotic Analysis of Geographical Indications

2021

This chapter investigates the relationship between food products and origin places within the European Union food policies. In the 1990s, the EU established a Geographical Indication (GI) system, constituted of a set of food quality brands and a legal framework for food, wine and spirits. This system, defined as a sui generis model by insiders, entails a strong EU government participation in the typical food symbolic and material modelling. The sui generis model establishes a government monopoly on the place-based labels registration and institutes an atypical kind of intellectual property based on geographic marks. By proposing a semiotic approach toward the analysis of European Geographic…

Introduction to Government and Disaster Resilience Minitrack

2017

Stakeholders' Perceptions about Fire Impacts on Lithuanian Protected Areas

2014

The aim of this work is to study Lithuanian stakeholders' perceptions of fire impacts in protected areas. For this study, the stakeholders consisted of foresters, ecologists and farmers. A clear understanding of the opinions of stakeholders about fire effects on environmental, social and economic aspects of Lithuanian protected areas will allow an assessment of the stakeholders' reaction to fire policy, including government measures towards fire prevention, suppression and application of prescribed fire to landscape management. The results showed that stakeholders in general think that fire is not a threat to Lithuania and to the ecological processes in the protected areas. However, they ag…

The Application of the IPSAS in Spain

2021

Governmental accounting was adapted to IPSAS in Spain in 2010, following the reform in the business accounting system to adapt it to IFRS. However, the budget maintains the modified cash criteria and there is an integrated system that includes financial and budgeting accounting. This chapter analyses the normative process and the main challenges and benefits that the new system has had at the three levels of government: central, regional, and local. In order to understand the experience of practitioners, a survey for accountants and financial directors has been carried out at each government level. The results show that budgetary reporting is considered still more useful than accrual financ…

Effects of Message Appeal when Communicating CSR Initiatives

2011

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be defined as those business activities which take into account the public consequences of company decisions over and above the simple compliance with government regulations (Menguc and Ozanne, 2005; Sharma, 2000). Thus, the management of a company should go beyond the economic concerns, considering both the social and environmental issues as relevant (Clarkson, 1991). Previous research highlights the importance of CSR for firms’ stakeholders, yet researchers find low consumer awareness of socially responsible initiatives (Beckmann, 2007; Du et al., 2007; Pomering and Dolnicar, 2009). How to communicate socially responsible initiatives is an importa…