scholarly journals The impact of changes to the New Zealand aid policy on non-governmental organisations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Valeria Openko
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Party Government ◽  
Government Aid ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Development Ngos ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Aid Policy

<p>The election of the National Party Government in 2008 led to a significant reshaping of the New Zealand aid programme. The changes became the subject of strong criticism from the New Zealand aid community in terms of the main policy underpinnings, funding schemes for (Non-Governmental Organisation) NGOs and the altered relationships between the government and development NGOs. While the literature reveals some critical observations about such changes, not much is known about the impacts of New Zealand’s Official Development Assistance (NZODA) policy on New Zealand development NGOs. This research aims to better understand the impacts of the changes to NZODA policy on the NGO sector to improve knowledge about the subject that could be applied in order to strengthen the long-term partnership and increase the effectiveness of NZODA. To achieve this goal twenty one New Zealand NGOs were interviewed regarding their views on the policy, impacts on NGO operations and policies, effects on in-country partners and relationships with the government. The criticisms of the aid community were also analysed and compared with the research findings. The research findings showed that the expressed views of NGOs indicted a wide variety of opinions on the policy changes and there was a diverse range of negative, neutral and sometimes positive views on the effects on NGOs. While the National Government’s policy agenda has dramatically affected development work of NGOs and their relationships with the government, NGO policies were less affected in some aspects. It is concluded that, whilst the relationship between the official government aid programme and the NGOs has been altered and adversely affected, there is still the basis for an effective partnership that can be reshaped and strengthened in future.</p>

scholarly journals The impact of changes to the New Zealand aid policy on non-governmental organisations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Valeria Openko
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Party Government ◽  
Government Aid ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Development Ngos ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Aid Policy

<p>The election of the National Party Government in 2008 led to a significant reshaping of the New Zealand aid programme. The changes became the subject of strong criticism from the New Zealand aid community in terms of the main policy underpinnings, funding schemes for (Non-Governmental Organisation) NGOs and the altered relationships between the government and development NGOs. While the literature reveals some critical observations about such changes, not much is known about the impacts of New Zealand’s Official Development Assistance (NZODA) policy on New Zealand development NGOs. This research aims to better understand the impacts of the changes to NZODA policy on the NGO sector to improve knowledge about the subject that could be applied in order to strengthen the long-term partnership and increase the effectiveness of NZODA. To achieve this goal twenty one New Zealand NGOs were interviewed regarding their views on the policy, impacts on NGO operations and policies, effects on in-country partners and relationships with the government. The criticisms of the aid community were also analysed and compared with the research findings. The research findings showed that the expressed views of NGOs indicted a wide variety of opinions on the policy changes and there was a diverse range of negative, neutral and sometimes positive views on the effects on NGOs. While the National Government’s policy agenda has dramatically affected development work of NGOs and their relationships with the government, NGO policies were less affected in some aspects. It is concluded that, whilst the relationship between the official government aid programme and the NGOs has been altered and adversely affected, there is still the basis for an effective partnership that can be reshaped and strengthened in future.</p>

scholarly journals Compositional cyber-physical epidemiology of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Woo Ro ◽  
Nathan Allen ◽  
Weiwei Ai ◽  
Debi Prasad ◽  
Partha S. Roop
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Cyber Physical Systems ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Disease Dynamics ◽  
Physical Systems ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Framework

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant challenges globally. Countries have adopted different strategies with varying degrees of success. Epidemiologists are studying the impact of government actions using scenario analysis. However, the interactions between the government policy and the disease dynamics are not formally captured. We, for the first time, formally study the interaction between the disease dynamics, which is modelled as a physical process, and the government policy, which is modelled as the adjoining controller. Our approach enables compositionality, where either the plant or the controller could be replaced by an alternative model. Our work is inspired by the engineering approach for the design of Cyber-Physical Systems. Consequently, we term the new framework Compositional Cyber-Physical Epidemiology. We created different classes of controllers and applied these to control the disease in New Zealand and Italy. Our controllers closely follow government decisions based on their published data. We not only reproduce the pandemic progression faithfully in New Zealand and Italy but also show the tradeoffs produced by differing control actions.

Catholic Colleges, the Courts, and the Constitution: A Tale of Two Cases

1989 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Richard Preville
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Catholic Higher Education ◽  
Catholic Colleges ◽  
Government Aid ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Direct Government ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
The Impact

Of the forces that have shaped contemporary American Catholic higher education, few have been more generative or influential than the proceedings of two court cases which tested the constitutionality of direct government aid to sectarian and church-related colleges and universities. These two court cases were Horace Mann League v. Board of Public Works (1966) and Tilton v. Richardson (1971). The impact of these judicial rulings over the radical transformation and substantive reform of American Catholic higher education during the past quarter of a century is the subject of this article.

Hindsight in 2020? New Zealand's ‘Wait and See’ Approach to Mobile Broadband Regulation

2014 ◽  
Vol 151 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-179
Author(s):  
Michael S. Daubs
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mobile Broadband ◽  
Broadband Service ◽  
Spectrum Auctions ◽  
Spectrum Auction ◽  
Wait And See ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

New Zealand's Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Review of the Telecommunications Act 2001, released in 2013, highlighted an increased demand for mobile broadband service, particularly in relation to the 700 MHz spectrum auction of 14 January 2014 – space ideal for next-generation 4G or Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile services. The government seemingly adopted a ‘wait and see’ approach to mobile broadband regulation, however, delaying its development until 2020 when there will be ‘a clearer sense of the impact of new networks and technology’. One can look to Canada to see the need for robust mobile broadband policies. Like New Zealand, Canada has relied primarily upon spectrum auctions to stimulate market competition. The spectrum auction frameworks used there, however, have done little to promote market competition. Applying the lessons learned from Canada to a New Zealand context, this article argues for a more assertive regulatory framework sooner rather than later.

scholarly journals HOW VIDEO DUBBING CAN IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING PRONUNCIATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Firdaus Ditya Pamungkas
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Impact

This research aims to find out the impact of video dubbing on improving students’ speaking pronunciation. This research was applied for the tenth grade and eleventh grade of Vocational High School in Madiun city, province of East Java, Indonesia. The subject of the research consisted of 20 students, 14 female students and 6 male students. In collecting the data, researcher used observation to observe the implementation of video dubbing during teaching learning process and used test to find the improvement of students’ speaking pronunciation during the implementation of video dubbing. The research was conducted in two cycles, where each cycle consisted of 4 meetings. The research findings showed that the implementation of video dubbing could improve students’ speaking pronunciation. It can be concluded that the implementation of video dubbing in learning process has beneficial effect on students’ speaking skill, especially in pronunciation.

scholarly journals ЕФЕКТИВНІСТЬ СТВОРЕННЯ КЛАСТЕРНИХ СТРУКТУР НА СУЧАСНОМУ ЕТАПІ РОЗВИТКУ

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 90-98
Author(s):  
Любов Петрівна Хмелевська
Keyword(s):  
Planning Horizon ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Managerial Decision ◽  
Recovery Capacity ◽  
Potential Synergy ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Government ◽  
Market Leadership ◽  
Labour Division ◽  
The Impact

This paper discusses the challenging issues of economic transformation processes and the government integration into the system of international labour division in the context of enhancing the competitiveness of national manufacturers. The multidimensional character of the above agenda in terms of increasing competition, instability of social and political factors, structural transformation of the global industrial system, the internationalization of business activities, etc. complicates the process of managerial decision-making and nudges companies to search for new methods of combining their efforts and capacities and enhance cooperation to survive or to gain market leadership. The research findings suggest that cluster-based cooperation of enterprises triggers a range of multiple effects, i. e. strategic, synergistic, innovative, economic, etc. These effects occur at different levels – the level of a certain unit, project, business entity, cluster or the national economy overall. To evaluate the impact of joint cluster-based activity of enterprises it is critical to take into consideration the following factors: long-term development factors consistency, redistribution of risks between partners, exchange of specific assets, production strategy balance and coordination, consolidation of financial assets. It is argued that the efficiency analysis should rely on the comparison of various characteristics of the two variants of participating companies’ development: they enjoy either full autonomy or act within the partnership framework. To study the practice of domestic integrated structures it is important to account for the financial recovery capacity of partners as well as their social efficiency components, to differentiate the planning horizon, focus on specific assets, i. e. the elements of potential synergy.

scholarly journals Structural transformations of Russian economy in the conditions of accelerated digitalization of industrial relations

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Mihail Mihailovich Gudov ◽  
Eka Revazievna Ermakova
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Structural Transformations ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
External Shocks ◽  
Current Period ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

The goal of this research is to determine the consequences of accelerated digitalization of industrial relations in the context of structural transformation of Russian economy, as well as substantiate the need and the possibility for structural changes namely in the current period of time. The object of this research is the current and exhausted raw mineral export model of the Russian economy, which requires immediate modification. The subject of this research consists in the study of the impact of current external shocks (abrupt drop in the price of energy resources) upon the changes in the structure of Russian economy (in the sectoral and component views). The structural reform of the Russian economy, which started back in the Soviet period, could not be fully implemented via evolutionary path.&nbsp; Same as all world&rsquo;s economies, the Russian economy is currently functioning in a state of uncertainty and under influence of external shocks. In the authors&rsquo; opinion, these external shocks presently force the accelerated digitalization of industrial relations, which can produce powerful structural transformations of economy, it the government will provide support for corresponding projects.

scholarly journals Compositional Cyber-Physical Epidemiology of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Woo Ro ◽  
Nathan Allen ◽  
Weiwei Ai ◽  
Debi Prasad ◽  
Partha S. Roop
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Cyber Physical Systems ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Disease Dynamics ◽  
Physical Systems ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Framework

AbstractCOVID-19 pandemic has posed significant challenges globally. Countries have adopted different strategies with varying degrees of success. Epidemiologists are studying the impact of government actions using scenario analysis. However, the interactions between the government policy and the disease dynamics are not formally captured.We, for the first time, formally study the interaction between the disease dynamics, which is modelled as a physical process, and the government policy, which is modelled as the adjoining controller. Our approach enables compositionality, where either the plant or the controller could be replaced by an alternative model. Our work is inspired by the engineering approach for the design of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs). Consequently, we term the new framework Compositional Cyber-Physical Epidemiology (CCPE). We created different classes of controllers and applied these to control the disease in New Zealand and Italy. Our controllers closely follow government decisions based on their published data. We not only reproduce the pandemic progression faithfully in New Zealand and Italy but also show the tradeoffs produced by differing control actions.

scholarly journals New era of uncertainties: COVID-19 and its impact on Brazil

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-81
Author(s):  
Mark Vladimirovich Shugurov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
The Novel ◽  
New Era ◽  
Socioeconomic System ◽  
Government Aid ◽  
Relevant Topic ◽  
Employment Education ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

This article is aimed at the analysis of social and economic consequences on the novel COVID-19 in Brazil. Brazil has faced multiple problems in fighting pandemic that negatively affected millions of people around the world. The goal of this research lies in determination of the problems that were illuminated by the pandemic in Brazilian society. Analysis is conducted on the consequence of pandemic for Brazil, namely with regards to minorities that rely on the government aid, and the system of public healthcare overall. The article also indicates the mistakes made by the current authorities during pandemic, when due to lack of organization, multiple institutions could not render basic help to reduce the consequences of the chaotic situation faced by the country. As the largest country in South America, Brazil struggled the most in the region; therefore, studying the impact of COVID-19 upon the socioeconomic system of the country is a relevant topic. The article explores the official database and media materials to acquire information on the responsive measures of the government in such sectors as employment, education and healthcare. The scientific novelty consists in the comprehensive analysis of information that demonstrate the impact of pandemic upon the lives of millions of people in Brazil.

On Federalism and Government Size The Leviathan Hypothesis After Three Decades

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-162
Author(s):  
Domenico da Empoli
Keyword(s):  
Fiscal Federalism ◽  
New Model ◽  
The Public ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Free Mobility ◽  
Direct Limits ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Empirical Investigations

Abstract The impact of fiscal federalism on the size of governments has been the subject of an intense (and extended) debate for more than three decades, mainly under the influence of The Power To Tax by Geoffrey Brennan -James Buchanan [1980] where federalism was proposed as a component of a fiscal constitution. According to the Brennan-Buchanan hypothesis, intergovernmental competition (if made effective through a number of conditions, such as free mobility of goods and persons, decentralization of taxes and expenditures) should indirectly ‘constrain’ the power to tax of the government (i.e., in Hobbesian terms, the Leviathan) just as the direct limits of a fiscal constitution.However, more than thirty years later, the numerous empirical investigations, though quite sophisticated, have been unable, at least apparently, to prove (or to disprove) irrefutably Brennan-Buchanan's hypothesis about the effects of federalism, so that quite often the authors of these inquiries recognized that their results are ‘mixed’.This paper will show that those empirical investigations did not take into consideration the basic conditions on which die approach of Brennan and Buchanan was based and, in particular, die new model of federalism proposed by Brennan and Buchanan, compared with the orthodox (‘conventional’, according to B-B) model of federalism. In fact, all these investigations made use of data on existing (orthodox) models of fiscal federalism, without taking account of the innovative conditions required by Brennan and Buchanan for establishing a new model of federalism capable to contract the public sector.

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