Public Sector Capital: Policy Reforms and Accounting Mutations

Regulation and Policy Reforms

Networked Communities ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-771-3.ch003 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 68-103

Author(s):

Sylvie Albert ◽

Don Flournoy ◽

Rolland LeBrasseur

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Public Sector ◽

Social Development ◽

Open Source ◽

The Internet ◽

Collaborative Culture ◽

Policy Reforms ◽

Technical Standards ◽

Policy Information ◽

Local Impact

This chapter examines the following ideas on regulation and public policy: • Information societies are enabled by regulations and public policies that support open communications; • Government, business and public sector collaboration is key to establishing policies that lead to economic and social development; • Open source applications, products and collaborative culture are accelerated by adopting universal technical standards; • To be sustained, accessibility to the Internet and keeping it free and open requires some vigilance; • Ways must be devised to assess the local impact of policy and regulations and to provide next steps.

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Comparative Analysis of Education Policy Reforms of Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa (KP) Pakistan since 2008-18

Review of Education, Administration & LAW ◽

10.47067/real.v3i2.50 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 165-173

Author(s):

Shakeel Khan ◽

Muhammad Hashim Khan ◽

Dur-e-Nayab Gul

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Education Policy ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Educational Reforms ◽

Policy Reforms ◽

Independent Variables ◽

Statistical Report ◽

Multiple Regression Technique ◽

The Difference ◽

The Government

The aim of this study is to compare the educational reforms of two governments in public sector schools within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) region and finds the difference in educational reforms between the government elected in 2008 and government elected in 2013 in KPK. The study uses quantitative approach and used secondary data which is collected from the Annual statistical Report issued from 2009 to 2015. This research explains relationship between independent variables and dependent variable through linear and multiple regression technique. The analysis shows that three independent variables namely Basic facilities, Number of teachers, Number of institution has great impact on student’s enrollment which shows changes made by present government in the education policy has increased the student’s enrollment in public sector schools. The study focuses only on three independent variables while there are some other factors which can affect the student’s enrollment in public sector school.

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The Politics of Government–Business Relations in Ghana

The Journal of Modern African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022278x00007746 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 97-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Roger Tangri

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Public Sector ◽

Private Investment ◽

Economic Life ◽

National Commission ◽

Policy Reforms ◽

Economic Role ◽

The Public ◽

National Defence

The emergence of a consensus that the performance of the public sector in Ghana had been poor, and that there were limits as to what it could achieve in terms of economic growth, led the Provisional National Defence Council (P.N.D.C.) to implement various policy reforms. As the Governor of the Bank of Ghana argued in 1984: ‘Given the dismal performance of the public sector, there is need for greater reliance on private investment in the Government's efforts to resuscitate the economy’. At the same time, the P.N.D.C. began to reassess the economic role of the public sector. According to a recent document prepared by the National Commission for Democracy, ‘changed national policies’ in Ghana include ‘the reduction of the state's rôle in the economic life of the nation through shifting of more responsibility to the private sector.

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