scholarly journals The Importance of the Public Sector in Sustainable Development in Poland

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Alińska ◽  
Beata Zofia Filipiak ◽  
Aneta Kosztowniak
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government

The striving for sustainable development has become the goal of actions undertaken not only by representatives of public authorities and institutions representing this sector, but also representatives of private entities who are increasingly recognizing the benefits and sources of long-term development based on the principles and objectives of sustainable development. These are mainly based on the pursuit of synergy in the three basic areas of activities, i.e., in the economic, social, and environmental dimensions as well as in the maintenance of natural resources. The implementation of these activities is connected with the necessity of incurring financial expenditures, which the government (public sector) does not have in the required value. Therefore, in the process of sustainable development for which the government is responsible, the active participation of the financial sector (banks) is necessary. Achieving results within the alliance of the concept of sustainable development requires the setting of a kind of contract, the parties of which are the government, society, and financial institutions. The purpose of the conducted research is to indicate by which means the government can stimulate economic growth towards its sustainable development. 

scholarly journals The Importance of the Public Sector in Sustainable Development in Poland

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Alińska ◽  
Beata Filipiak ◽  
Aneta Kosztowniak
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government

The striving for sustainable development has become the goal of actions undertaken not only by representatives of public authorities and institutions representing this sector, but also representatives of private entities who are increasingly recognizing the benefits and sources of long-term development based on the principles and objectives of sustainable development. These are mainly based on the pursuit of synergy in the three basic areas of activities, i.e., in the economic, social, and environmental dimensions as well as in the maintenance of natural resources. The implementation of these activities is connected with the necessity of incurring financial expenditures, which the government (public sector) does not have in the required value. Therefore, in the process of sustainable development for which the government is responsible, the active participation of the financial sector (banks) is necessary. Achieving results within the alliance of the concept of sustainable development requires the setting of a kind of contract, the parties of which are the government, society, and financial institutions. The purpose of the conducted research is to indicate by which means the government can stimulate economic growth towards its sustainable development.

scholarly journals Alliance of Financial Institution and Government in Sustainable Development: The Case of Poland

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Alinska ◽  
Beata Zofia Filipiak ◽  
Aneta Kosztowniak
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial Institution ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Government

The striving for sustainable development has become the goal of actions undertaken not only by representatives of public authorities and institutions representing this sector, but also representatives of private entities who are increasingly recognizing the benefits and sources of long-term development based on the principles and objectives of sustainable development. These are mainly based on the pursuit of synergy in the three basic areas of activities, i.e., in the economic, social, and environmental dimensions as well as in the maintenance of natural resources. The implementation of these activities is connected with the necessity of incurring financial expenditures, which the government (public sector) does not have in the required value. Therefore, in the process of sustainable development for which the government is responsible, the active participation of the financial sector (banks) is necessary. Achieving results within the alliance of the concept of sustainable development requires the setting of a kind of contract, the parties of which are the government, society, and financial institutions. The purpose of the conducted research is to indicate by which means the government and the financial sector can stimulate economic growth towards its sustainable development.

scholarly journals Eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS) as an important element of the sustainable development policy on the example of public sector organizations

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-24
Author(s):  
Janusz Myszczyszyn
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Organizations ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The necessity to protect natural resources in accordance with the idea of sustainable development is an indisputable issue. Not only the industrial sector organizations, but those of the public sector as well must join this process. The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme can play an important role in this respect. 3.7 thousand organizations have already registered in the EU EMAS register, including, unfortunately, only 71 from Poland, of which almost 40% from the public sector. The author tries to set out the benefits, resulting for the public sector organizations from the implementation of the scheme, but also the barriers and weaknesses of the system, which makes it not very popular in Poland. The results of the author’s own research carried out in 2016 among representatives of EMAS system, inter alia, of public sector organizations in Poland were used for this purpose.

scholarly journals Economic Growth and the Public Sector: A Comparison of Canada and Italy, 1870-2013

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-243
Author(s):  
Livio Di Matteo ◽  
Thomas Barbiero
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Government Spending ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Government Size ◽  
Size Of Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Stagnation

There is considerable evidence that the size of the public sector can influence an economy’s rate of economic growth. We investigate public sector spending of central governments and economic performance in two G7 countries over the long-term, Canada and Italy. Their economic performance has diverged in the last 25 years and it is worth investigating whether the size of government was a contributing factor. We find that in both the case of Canada and Italy the size of central government spending directly affects the performance of their economies in an inverse U-shaped relationship known as a Scully/BARS Curve. These results suggest that along with modifying current central government size, other levels of governments may need to shrink their own spending. The fact that the amount spent by government on pensions as a percentage of GDP in Italy is nearly 4 times that in Canada may partly explain the higher level of Italy’s public debt as well as an indirect contributing factor to economic stagnation in the last 25 years.

Green Public Procurement Implementation Framework

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Rajesh Kumar Shakya
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Public ◽  
Green Public Procurement ◽  
The Government

Government expenditure on public procurement accounts for a sizeable part of economic activity and demand. The annual public-sector procurement budget accounts about 20% to 30% of GDP in the developing countries, which provides the countries public sector with considerable leverage to stimulate the public-sector consumptions favoring goods, works, and services using fewer resources, and less harmful to the environment. The public sector should be more responsible for supporting environmental and broader sustainable development objectives. Green public procurement (GPP) is slowly getting recognized internationally as an effective means for public administrations to manage the balance between cost-effectiveness and sustainable development. The public fund should be used responsibly to uplift the health, environment, and social life. At the same time, the goods, services, and works procured by the government must achieve value for money. This chapter focuses on the importance of green public procurement strategies that could guide the countries to successfully plan, procure, and implement green public procurement (GPP) by outlining policies, strategies, and actions to boost green public procurement. The recommended strategies are based on the international best practices and the lessons learned from the experience by different government around the world. These strategies could be updated and customized based on the specific country context and their readiness.

A Case Study of a Data Warehouse in the Finnish Police

2011 ◽  
pp. 183-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arla Juntunen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Managers ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level

The high level objectives of public authorities are to create value at minimal cost, and achieve ongoing support and commitment from its funding authority. Similar to the private sector, today’s government agencies face a rapidly changing operating environment and many challenges. Where public organizations differ is that they need to manage this environment while answering to demands for increased service, reduced costs, fewer resources and at the same time increased efficiency and accountability. Public organization must cope with changing expectations of multiple contact groups, emerging regulation, changes in politics, decentralization of organization, and centralization of certain functions providing similar services, and growing demand for better accountability. The aim of public management is to create public value. Public sector managers create value through their organization’s performance and demonstrated accomplishments. The public value is difficult to define: it is something that exists within each community. It is created and affected by the citizens, businesses and organizations of that community (cf. also Moore, 1995). This increased interest to questions of value is partly due to the adoption of values and value-related concepts taken from business, like value creation and added value. It is argued that the public sector adopts business-like techniques to increase efficiency (Khademian, 1995; cf. Turban et al. 2007; Chen et al. 2005). In addition, there is a growing concern to the non-tangible, political, and ethical aspects of the public sector governance and actions (See Berg, 2001) Decision making that turns the resources in to public value is a daily challenge in the government (Khademian, 1999; Flynn, 2007) and not only because of the social or political factors. Most of decision problems are no longer well-structured problems that are easy to be solved by experience. Even problems that used to be fairly simple to define and solve are now much more complex because of the globalization of the economy, and rapid pace of changes in the technology and political and social environment. Therefore, modern decision makers often need to integrate quickly and reliably knowledge from different areas of data sources to use it in their decision making process. Moreover, the tools and applications developed for knowledge representations in key application areas are extremely diversified, therefore knowledge and data modeling and integration is important (See also the decision support systems (DSS) modeling methods and paradigms: Ruan et al., 2001; Carlsson & Fuller, 2002; Fink, 2002; Makowski & Wierzbicki, 2003). The application s of real-world problems and the abundance of different software tools allow to integrate several methods, specifications and analysis and to apply them to new, arising, complex problems.

scholarly journals KONTRIBUSI FINTECH DALAM MENINGKATKAN KEUANGAN INKLUSIF PADA PERTANIAN (Studi Analisis Melalui Pendekatan Keuangan Syariah Dengan Situs Peer To Peer Lending Pada Pertanian Di Indonesia)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanik Fitriani
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Network Access ◽  
Financial Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Government ◽  
Financial Technology

Abstract: Currently the development of technology is growing very rapidly and has entered into all sectors, including the financial sector. With the technology to the financial sector, it is slowly transforming the financial industry into the digital era. The combination of Financial Technique (Fintech) with financial institutions, especially sharia financial institutions, is considered to increase financial inclusiveness in agriculture. Inclusion is a situation where the public is not aware of access to digital finance.The emergence of problems in the first agricultural sector due to lack of land, secondly due to lack of farmer capital and thirdly due to lack of land processors made modernization of technology create agricultural financial technology as an alternative to increase financial inclusion in agriculture.The use of fintech agro in Indonesia is felt to be lacking because of constraints such as lack of literacy to the community, poorly trained human resources, lack of legislation and lack of network access to remote villages. Financial inclusion can increase with the support of the government to improve supporting facilities and infrastructure for the use of fintech agro in Indonesia. الملخص: في الوقت الحالي ينمو تطوير التكنولوجيا بسرعة كبيرة وقد دخل في جميع القطاعات، بما في ذلك القطاع المالي. ومع دخول التكنولوجيا إلى القطاع المالي، فإنها تحول الصناعة المالية إلى العصر الرقمي. ويشعر مزيج من التقنية المالية  مع المؤسسات المالية، وخاصة المؤسسات المالية الشرعية، تزيد التمويل في مجال الزراعة. ظهور مشاكل في القطاع الزراعي الأول بسبب عدم وجود الأراضي، وثانياً بسبب نقص رأس المال الفلاحي، وثالثاً بسبب عدم وجود معالجي الأراضي، أدى تحديث التكنولوجيا إلى خلق التكنولوجيا الزراعية المالية كبديل لزيادة الشمول المالي في الزراعة. ومن المعتقد أن استخدام التكنولوجيا الزراعية في إندونيسيا يفتقر إلى القيود بسبب الافتقار إلى معرفة القراءة والكتابة لدى المجتمع، والموارد البشرية المدربة تدريجيًا، وعدم وجود تشريعات، وعدم الوصول إلى الشبكة إلى القرى النائية. يمكن أن يزيد الإدماج المالي بدعم من الحكومة لتحسين المرافق الداعمة والبنية التحتية لاستخدام التكنولوجيا الزراعية في إندونيسيا.                                         Abstrak: Saat  ini  perkembangan teknologi berkembang sangat pesat  dan telah masuk ke semua sector, diantaranya adalah sektor keuangan. Dengan masuknya teknologi ke sector keungan, maka secara perlahan  mengubah industry keuangan ke era digital. Perpaduan antara Financial Technlogi (Fintech) dengan lembaga keuangan  khususnya lembaga keuangan syariah dirasa dapat meningkatkan inklusif keuangan pada bidang pertanian. Inklusi adalah sebuah keadaan di mana masyarakat kurang paham terhadap akses keuangan digital.Munculnya permasalahan pada bidang pertanian pertama karena kurangnya lahan, kedua karena kurangya modal petani dan ketiga karena kurangnya pengolah lahan membuat modernisasi teknologi menciptakan teknologi financial  agro pertanian sebagai alternative meningkatkan inklusi keuangan pada bidang pertanian.Penggunan fintech agro di Indonesia dirasa masih kurang karena adanya kendala seperti kurangnya literasi kepada masyarakat, Sumber daya manusia yang kurang dibina, peraturan perundang-undangan yang kurang dan kurangnya akses jaringan ke dalam pelosok desa. Inklusi keuangan bisa  meningkat dengan adanya dukungan dari pemerintah guna peningkatan sarana dan prasarana penunjang untuk penggunaan fintech agro di Indonesia.

scholarly journals Determinant Factors for Managing Innovation in the Malaysian Public Sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 05042
Author(s):  
Zety Norhaiza Ab Rahman ◽  
Norain Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Management Innovation ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
The Public ◽  
Determinant Factors ◽  
Managing Innovation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Innovative Culture

Since 1991, the government has started the forces to encourage public sector to innovate in order to strengthen the capability and solve problems at workplace for the benefit of organization and its people. The focuses of this forces is to create value creation, encourage cost reduction, and provide services that meet aspirations and people's expectations through high impact ideas. However, to achieve these focuses, public sector faces few challenges that affect the management of innovation; which includes lack of leadership skills and poor innovative culture to stimulate innovation. Although there are various initiatives conducted to enhance the management innovation, the innovative performance is still less satisfactory. Therefore, this paper aims to discuss the determinant factors that affect managing innovation in the selected public sectors which consist of two categories; patron and executor agencies. Thematic approach was used to analyse the interview data. Findings from the interview suggested that in the organization, an employee especially a leader should show his full commitment towards innovative culture, he needs to be committed and supportive and communicate well with the employees and he also should provide attractive rewards to encourage the innovative culture for an effective management innovation. These determinant factors need to be considered as high significant for the public sector to develop new strategies or approaches in managing innovation towards sustaining their competitive advantages in a long term for the benefit of public.

A Case Study of a Data Warehouse in the Finnish Police

2011 ◽  
pp. 956-966
Author(s):  
Arla Juntunen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Managers ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level

The high level objectives of public authorities are to create value at minimal cost, and achieve ongoing support and commitment from its funding authority. Similar to the private sector, today’s government agencies face a rapidly changing operating environment and many challenges. Where public organizations differ is that they need to manage this environment while answering to demands for increased service, reduced costs, fewer resources and at the same time increased efficiency and accountability. Public organization must cope with changing expectations of multiple contact groups, emerging regulation, changes in politics, decentralization of organization, and centralization of certain functions providing similar services, and growing demand for better accountability. The aim of public management is to create public value. Public sector managers create value through their organization’s performance and demonstrated accomplishments. The public value is difficult to define: it is something that exists within each community. It is created and affected by the citizens, businesses and organizations of that community (cf. also Moore, 1995). This increased interest to questions of value is partly due to the adoption of values and value-related concepts taken from business, like value creation and added value. It is argued that the public sector adopts business-like techniques to increase efficiency (Khademian, 1995; cf. Turban et al. 2007; Chen et al. 2005). In addition, there is a growing concern to the non-tangible, political, and ethical aspects of the public sector governance and actions (See Berg, 2001) Decision making that turns the resources in to public value is a daily challenge in the government (Khademian, 1999; Flynn, 2007) and not only because of the social or political factors. Most of decision problems are no longer well-structured problems that are easy to be solved by experience. Even problems that used to be fairly simple to define and solve are now much more complex because of the globalization of the economy, and rapid pace of changes in the technology and political and social environment. Therefore, modern decision makers often need to integrate quickly and reliably knowledge from different areas of data sources to use it in their decision making process. Moreover, the tools and applications developed for knowledge representations in key application areas are extremely diversified, therefore knowledge and data modeling and integration is important (See also the decision support systems (DSS) modeling methods and paradigms: Ruan et al., 2001; Carlsson & Fuller, 2002; Fink, 2002; Makowski & Wierzbicki, 2003). The application s of real-world problems and the abundance of different software tools allow to integrate several methods, specifications and analysis and to apply them to new, arising, complex problems.

scholarly journals Methods of increasing operational efficiency of the communication channels of civil society

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
I. V. Chaplay
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
National Level ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
External Management ◽  
The Right ◽  
Civil Sector

In general, Ukraine has developed a sufficiently detailed practice on the management of public sector entities, although unfortunately, not all of its fundamentally important provisions, adapt the experience of managing the civil sector. For example, especially at the national level, the overall goal of the government is to achieve certain policy goals, for example, in environmental, social or economic aspects. In this context, governments need to have well-organized work with the civil sector on social security programs or health care services to study service delivery performance for target groups.It is established that today, improvement of the mechanism of introduction of modern technologies of information presence and informing citizens about their rights, in particular, about the right to choose, the right of responsibility is the first important step for their participation in the process of monitoring the development and implementation of state policy. By receiving full information, civil society institutions can better assess the effectiveness of the public sector and submit their proposals. Despite the apparent need for a thorough analysis of competitors of the communicative environment of the interaction of public authorities with the public, when formulating the state strategy, analysis is far from always sufficiently clear and comprehensive. The difficulty lies in the fact that a comprehensive analysis of the competitors of the communicative environment of the interaction of public authorities with the public requires a large amount of data, most of which is difficult to obtain without much effort. Many state authorities do not systematically collect information about competitors of the communicative environment of the interaction of public authorities with the public, but act on the basis of fragmentary information, informal impressions, assumptions and intuitions. The lack of qualitative information is extremely difficult to analyze the competitor’s communicative environment of interaction between public authorities and the public.However, it is important that such an exchange is bilateral - from officials to citizens, and vice versa. This leads to maximizing the effectiveness of internal system management and to qualitative improvements in external management performance both of public authorities and the public sector as a whole. Control measures in the management of both sectors should be directly linked to the use of these indicators, both for feedback and for direct control. This will help identify new strategic opportunities for achieving control objectives and ensure the ability to use existing capabilities.

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