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Territorial fragmentation in post-communist Romania: the not so curious case of a de-amalgamation reform
2021
Abstract The efficiency-driven trend towards amalgamation characterising local government reforms in Europe seems to have escaped Romania, which displays a significant increase in the number of local governments post-1989. This is the result of rural first-tier local governments splitting into smaller units. The paper examines objective factors and subjective motivations that have shaped the behaviour of both national and local actors in dealing with territorial reform. First, it explores the rationale and rationality of a central government initiative to facilitate municipal splits against a set of criteria derived from the literature. Second, it examines the municipal splits occurring bet…
Labor and product market reforms and external Imbalances: Evidence from advanced economies
2021
We explore the impact of major labor and product market reforms on current account dynamics using a new “narrative” database of major changes in employment protection for regular workers and product market regulation for non-manufacturing industries covering 26 advanced economies over the past four decades. Our main finding is that product market deregulation is associated with a weakening of the current account, while labor market deregulation is associated with an improvement. These effects are transitory and driven by both saving and investment responses. Labor and product market reforms both have a more positive impact on the current account balance when implemented under weak macroecon…
Health system reforms and the needs of the ageing population : an analysis of recent policy paths and reform trends in Finland and Sweden
2022
AbstractPopulation ageing with an increasing number of people experiencing complex health and social care needs challenges health systems. We explore whether andhow health system reforms and policy measures adopted during the past two decades in Finland and Sweden reflect and address the needs of the older people. We discuss health system characteristics that are important to meet the care needs of older people and analyse how health policy agendas have highlighted these aspects in Finland and Sweden. The analysis is based on “most similar cases”. The two countries have rather similar health systems and are facing similar challenges. However, the policy paths to address these challenges are…
Identificación y priorización de actuaciones de mejora de la eficiencia en el Sistema Nacional de Salud
2011
ResumenObjetivosIdentificar un número significativo de actuaciones orientadas a mejorar la eficiencia y reducir el despilfarro en el Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS), y priorizarlas en función de su impacto. Valorar el impacto y la prioridad de las medidas implantadas o anunciadas por el gobierno.Material y métodosReunión de 13 expertos, estructurada siguiendo procedimientos adaptados de las técnicas de brainstorming, grupo nominal y método de consenso Rand.ResultadosEl panel propuso 101 posibles medidas para mejorar la eficiencia del SNS, que junto a las 11 contenidas en los Reales Decretos-Ley 4 y 8 de 2010, suman un total de 112 propuestas valoradas. Las propuestas se centraron en el buen…
Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia, Vol. 22, Issue 1
2014
ILONA BAUMANE-VITOLINA. Conceptualising the Resource Based View for Innovation Research and Measurment in Small and Medium Enterprises ; VIESTURS PAULS KARNUPS. Latvian and Turkish Economic Relations 1918-1940 ; GREGORY OLEVSKY. Functioning of Latvian manufacturing: up the stairs Which Lead Down ; LEONARDO PATACCINI, ELENA KINZHEBAEVA. Structural Reforms in Emerging Economies: Argentina and Russia through the Latvian Mirror ; INESE KALNIŅA. The Council of Europe and the Protection of National Minorities
Spazi e forme della cooperazione multilivello nell’emergenza pandemica in Belgio e in Spagna
2022
Un tratto comune alle crisi che hanno interessato gli ordinamenti giuridici del XXI secolo, pur trattandosi di fenomeni qualitativamente diversi, è stata la rimodulazione di alcune categorie e di alcuni modelli tradizionali, strettamente connessi alla dimensione delle fonti del diritto. L’emergenza pandemica ha tuttavia prodotto un impatto multidirezionale, coinvolgendo non solo il piano istituzionale, ma anche le fondamenta della forma di Stato degli ordinamenti contemporanei. Rispetto a tale ultimo profilo, valutato nella sua dimensione verticale, in dottrina è stato evidenziato come gli Stati composti siano stati sottoposti a un vero e proprio stress test che ha costituito un momento di …
Can re-regulation of the financial sector strike back public debt?
2015
This paper analyzes the impact of financial sector policy changes on the dynamics of public debt. Using a panel of 89 countries from 1973 to 2005, we find that while the implementation of (large) financial liberalisation policies significantly raises the public debt growth rate, the adoption of financial re-regulation measures leads to a mild reduction of public debt. Looking at the different typologies of financial sector policy changes, we show that stricter banking supervision, privatisations and restrictions to international capital flows contribute to a fast decline of the growth rate of public debt. In contrast, the removal of entry barriers and the elimination of interest rate contro…
Human, Technologies and Quality of Education: Proceedings of Scientific Papers, 2019
2019
Trabajo social en el Espacio Europeo supone la recuperación de espacios perdidos
2012
La nuevas orientaciones y reformas universitarias nos obligan a re-pensar el alcance del trabajo social, a redefinir sus ámbitos y desarrollar aspectos de su práctica hacia formas nuevas, que permitan alcanzar mejor los objetivos propios del Trabajo Social, que no son otros que el bienestar individual y familiar y en su caso comunitarios o colectivos, participando de los recursos individuales y sociales, que la propia sociedad genera en favor de sus propios ciudadanos/as y eso de una manera comunicativa, dialógica (democrática) en la que el cliente se sienta, porque lo es, el protagonista del (su) cambio. The new university orientation and reforms force us to rethink the scope of Social Wor…
The International Monetary System in the Context of the Actual Financial Crisis. Change Proposals
2013
The International Monetary System (I.M.S.) has a crucial role in economy, representing the frame for a sustainable development of the economic relationships between states, while contributing at the progress of the world’s economies. Nowadays, this system confronts large difficulties, as a consequence of the lack of financial disciplinary instruments, meant at regulation and coordination. The actual economic-financial crisis proved the limits of the present I.M.S., reason why it is now under “reconstruction”. In this direction, there is a series of reforms that can be implemented, so that the new architecture of the system is much more solid.