Revisiting the Impact of GATS on Public Services

Author(s):  
Amedeo Arena
Keyword(s):  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathania Ch. E. Sasuwuk ◽  
Jullie J. Sondakh ◽  
Jessy D. L. Warongan

Realization of Regional Government budget (APBD) is one of measure instrument to see  the implementation from policies and operationalization implementation of financial regional management for optimal actualization public services. Management potential of Local Revenue (PAD) have to do with correct and appropriate in order to support the progress. The purpose of this research are to know and analyze the realization performance of regional government budget and district own source revenue potential at North Minahasa Region. The result of this research show the regional government budget of North Minahasa in terms of revenue considered good by looking from variance analyzes and tax effectiveness, expect from decentralization  degree analyzes is not good enough or low. While for expense, from variance analyzes over all is good by looking at the budget are well controlled and the impact in the North Minahasa Region for having an surplus from the allocated budget, and for compatibility analyzes expenditure are effective because realization of the expense budget not over amount that has been planned. And for the Own Source Revenue Potential for 2016-2020 seen from tax regional income are 42,78% while from regional retribution are 37,36%. Keywords: performance, government, budget, Potential, Local Revenue


2021 ◽  
pp. 103530462110560
Author(s):  
Linda Colley ◽  
Shelley Woods ◽  
Brian Head

The COVID-19 pandemic is sending shockwaves through communities and economies, and public servants have risen to the novel policy challenges in uncharted waters. This crisis comes on top of considerable turmoil for public services in recent decades, with public management reforms followed by the global financial crisis (GFC) leading to considerable change to public sector employment relations and a deprivileging of public servants. The research adopts the lens of the ‘public service bargain’ to examine the effects of the pandemic across Australian public services. How did Australian public service jurisdictions approach public employment in 2020, across senior and other cohorts of employees? How did this pandemic response compare to each jurisdictions’ response to the GFC a decade earlier? The research also reflects more broadly of the impact on public sector employment relations and to what extent pandemic responses have altered concepts of the diminished public service bargain or the notion of governments as model employers? JEL Codes J45


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Syahrir Rahman ◽  
Nomahaza Mahadi

Respect has a crucial role in a dyadic relationship, especially between leader and subordinate, because of the reciprocal costs in the relationship when respect is gained or earned. Leaders can be respected because of their position or fair treatment given to their subordinates. Respect has been featured in the leadership literature; however, few touches on the perspective of mutuality in respect, especially in a dyadic leader-subordinate relationship. The impact of the leader-subordinate relationship is significant in the Malaysian public services, as the scheme of grades determines the employees’ hierarchy. The Malaysian public services organizations' issues often arise from employees’ behavior and working relationships that affect their delivery. A high exchange of the dyadic leader and subordinate relationship correlated with desirable outcomes such as positive performance and attitudinal outcomes. One of the significant elements of the subordinates’ response is the attitude of respect towards the leader. Hence, this paper aimed to investigate the influence of mutual respect on the leader-subordinate working relationship in the public services that has implications for performance and service delivery.


Author(s):  
Andrew E. Clark ◽  
Sarah Flèche ◽  
Richard Layard ◽  
Nattavudh Powdthavee ◽  
George Ward

This chapter demonstrates that policy analysis should be based on happiness as the measure of benefit (except where traditional methods actually work). It argues that this should be generally applied throughout the public services and by nongovernment organizations (NGOs). The chapter offers four key proposals. The first is that the goal of governments should be to increase the happiness of the people and, especially, to reduce misery. Where willingness to pay is not a feasible measure of benefit, governments should develop new methods of policy analysis based on point-years of happiness as the measure of benefit. All policy change should be evaluated through controlled experiments in which the impact on happiness is routinely measured. A major objective of social science (and of its funders) should be to throw light on the causes of happiness, and how it can be enhanced—and at what cost.


2011 ◽  
pp. 1690-1707
Author(s):  
Christiaan Holland ◽  
Frank Bongers ◽  
Rens Vandeberg ◽  
Wouter Keller ◽  
Robbin te Velde

In this chapter we describe research we have conducted on measuring e-government in the Netherlands. This research was commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior in the Netherlands. There are many aspects and benefits of e-government which are missing in existing measuring tools and concepts. Existing benchmark studies lack a theoretical basis and merely look at the supply side of electronic government: the availability of electronic services. Actual use or the impact of electronic public services is not captured. We therefore have developed a new concept and measuring tool for e-government. This tool is being used in a benchmarking study, the results of which will be published by the end of this year.* For this reason we have only described the methodological aspects of our approach here. We believe our experience in this research project and this measuring tool can contribute to the discussion on new ways to measure and evaluate e-government from an international perspective.


Author(s):  
Marjorie Mayo

Governments have supported popular education initiatives in the past. And so have community organisations and social movements. But the spaces for popular education have been shrinking in recent times, as part of the impact of neo-liberal globalisation. Public services have been increasingly subjected to pressures from market forces, pressures that have impacted on community-based education and lifelong learning. Despite these wider pressures, educators have continued to find spaces and places for popular education and participatory action research, however, working across sectors in a variety of contexts. The chapter includes examples of innovatory approaches in both formal settings and informal settings (such as libraries and community centres) including examples from both Northern and Southern American contexts.


2019 ◽  
pp. 163-184
Author(s):  
Mark N. Cooper ◽  
Theodore L. Sullivan ◽  
Susan Punnett ◽  
Ellen Berman

Criminologie ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ginette Larouche ◽  
Louise Gagné

The article presents the situation regarding violence to women for the region of Montreal. The nature and extent of the problem is examined and the risk factors are dealt with from a multidimensional point of view. The community and para-public services associated with this problem are described briefly and an account is given of the impact of past and present action. Some future prospects are also introduced.


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