scholarly journals The Obligations of a Policy Economist

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Portney

It is impossible for me to begin this short talk with anything other than a heartfelt thank-you to the members of this association for making me the recipient of this year's Award for Outstanding Public Service Through Economics. I'm not the kind of person who gets awards and, as with many of the honors given to government figures in Washington, DC, from which I hail, it's undeserved! You should note, however, that I came to Halifax yesterday afternoon to be sure I was here to receive the award today, so I hope you know how pleased and honored I am to be here.

Gerontologia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-242
Author(s):  
Laura Kalliomaa-Puha

Jokaisella vanhuksella on Suomessa yksilöllinen, viime kädessä perustuslaissa taattu, oikeus riittävään hoivaan ja huolenpitoon. Silti tämä oikeus on usein käytännössä riippuvainen siitä, onko vanhalla ihmisellä omaisia tukenaan. Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan sitä, miten oikeus hoivaan ja hoitoon taataan lainsäädännössä. Omaisilla ei lain mukaan ole vastuuta hoivan järjestämisestä, mutta silti lainsäädäntö monessa kohdin ikään kuin olettaa omaisten olevan vanhuksen tukena. Vaikka omaiset usein ovatkin tukena, miten perusoikeus hoivaan ja huolenpitoon toteutuu niillä vanhuksilla, joilla ei ole omaisia? Artikkeli nostaa vakavimpana omaisolettaman riskinä esiin ne vanhukset, joilla on omaisia, mutta joiden omaiset eivät osaa tai halua auttaa. Right to care and presumption of family and friends in the Finnish legislation According to Finnish legislation the public authorities must guarantee adequate social, health and medical services for those old persons who cannot obtain means necessary for a life of dignity. Yet in practice this right to receive indispensable subsistence and care often depends on the fact whether the old person happens to have family or friends to help her or him. As if the legislation supposes there are friends and family to help, even though, according to Finnish law, family members do not have legal responsibility to take care of an elderly person. This article elaborates how the right to care is guaranteed in Finnish legislation and what the law says about the responsibilities of the family. Even though most of the relatives do help their elderlies, how is the right to care fulfilled for those old persons who do not have family? Perhaps the elderlies who have family and friends, which do not help or do not know how to, are in the most vulnerable situation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
R.B Wahyu ◽  
Hidayat Saputra

<p>Nowadays going through other places is easier to do. Explore new area is quite common activities by every people since they have sense to know about the environment or situation around them or just curiosity about somewhere else they didn’t know yet. People have different ability to adapt and ways to know how the environment around them. Not all people feeling easy with their new environment and socialize with local people.This research intends to implement object detection as one of feature from computer vision in android application. This application also will assist users how to training image for cascade classifier. User will be able to do object detection using built in Android smartphone camera to receive direction to some place or building from provided marker or logo. It also gives user information about the current place.<em></em></p>


Tuturlogi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-230
Author(s):  
Saras Desca Lestari ◽  
Fajar Hariyanto ◽  
Yanti Tayo

Communication is a very decisive aspect for the delivery of public services, so service providers must know how to communicate well so that they can influence others in the service. This research uses a descriptive method with a qualitative approach. Interviews were conducted with informants determined by purposive sampling, the informants were employees who handled services at DLHK Karawang, and the society who received services. And use one of three important aspects/dimensions in public service communication, namely Institution/Corporate Image. The results showed that, communication of public services provided by the PPL DLHK Karawang had given a pretty good impression. Communities and companies have received complete information and good service, because important aspects/dimensions in service communication already exist in the DLHKKarawang. However there are still some shortcomings, DLHKKarawang does not have brochures, leaflets or films about services. Yet in the implementation of public service communication must pay attention to all things that can support the achievement of the goal of providing excellent service.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Fantika Febry Puspitasari

<p><em>Education is a public service institution that aims to educate the nation. In achieving this goal, SDIT Taqiyya Rosyida is committed to dedicate excellent services to achieve the quality of education. The purpose of this research is to know how to implement excellent services as an effort to improve the marketing of schools in SDIT Taqiyya Rosyida. This research uses qualitative methods of descriptive. Data is collected through observation, interviews, and documentation. Research subjects are principals and research informers include teachers, students, employees, and parents. The results of this research are the implementation of excellent services in the form of: 1) Training of Excellence Services, 2) creating friendly communication, 3) animate a family atmosphere, 4) provide quality facilities, where the implementation of excellent services was able to make SDIT Taqiyya Rosyida reached the acceptance of 112 students divided into 4 study groups, in the fifth year.</em></p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Travers ◽  
Michael Krezmien

The underidentification of students with autism is a well-documented phenomenon that implies minority children are less likely to receive autism-specific interventions and services vital for better outcomes. Previous research has found that minority children are less likely to be identified as having autism, but recent changes in federal reporting from five to seven racial categories warrant further investigation of minority underidentification in the autism category. This logistic regression analysis of autism count data was conducted to examine differences in identification according to seven racial reporting categories. We calculated the probability of autism identification for each racial group and tested odds ratios for significant differences within each state and Washington, DC. We also compared odds of autism identification for each racial group in each state to the odds of identification for White students in California. Within-state analyses indicated minority students in most states continue to be identified at rates significantly lower than their White counterparts. Between-state analyses revealed White students and minority students in most states were underidentified compared to White students with autism in California. The change to seven racial reporting categories appears to have clarified the extent to which minority students are underidentified in the autism category, which may mean minority students experience restricted access to evidence-based interventions and services for students with autism.


2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Rohana Thahier

The high level of public complaints against bureaucracy shows that on the one hand the quality of bureaucratic service has, in public opinion, been found wanting. At the same time, public awareness has continued to grow, with consumers demanding they have rights to receive high quality service (Dwiyanto, 2002). The quality of public service is lacking. Often bribes are required, services are not guaranteed, and procedures are over-complicated. The perceptions of the public human resource sector are various: Professionalism is lacking, corruption, collusion and nepotism run rampant, wages are insufficient, service to the public is over-complicated, relationships are based on a patrion-client system, there is lack of creativity and innovation, not to mention other potential negative perceptions which essentially show that this system is still weak in Indonesia.  All this motivates us to reform the public human resources sector of Mamuju Regency, West Sulawesi (Reformation of Bureaucracy).


Author(s):  
M. J. Michelbacher

This chapter presents a sermon delivered by M. J. Michelbacher. The occasion for the sermon was one of the many days of fasting and prayer proclaimed by the governments in Richmond and in Washington, DC during the Civil War years. Jefferson Davis proclaimed nine such days during the life of the Confederacy. While it is difficult to know how seriously the fasting component was taken by the population, religious leaders were apparently committed to observing them as occasions for addressing their people in specially prepared sermons, many of which were summarized in local newspapers and subsequently printed in pamphlet form. The themes were generally the acknowledgement of divine providence, the recognition of failures and sins, and the need to pray, in an appropriate posture of humility, for God's favour.


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