ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF TRANSPORT POLICY MEASURES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN TERMS OF TRANSPORT ENTERPRISES

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iveta Oborilova
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Transport Policy ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Policy Measures

scholarly journals Influence of policy measures on the competitiveness of the sugar industry in the Czech Republic

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (No. 6) ◽  
pp. 266-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bavorová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Sugar Beet ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
National Market ◽  
Policy Measures

The sugar industry in the Czech Republic is one of the branches of food production that since the end of nineties has been strongly protected by agricultural policy. Here, we will deal with the question how the Czech agricultural policy affected the competitiveness of the sugar industry during transformation. From the analysis, it can be derived that not only agricultural measures but also organisational changes inside the enterprises, as well as modernisation and increasing capacity of plants  that all took place before the enforced political aid, supported the stabilisation of sugar beet farming and the sugar industry in the Czech Republic and its competitiveness in the national market.

When PISA does not matter? The case of the Czech Republic and Germany

Human Affairs ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Greger
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
International Student ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Study Programme ◽  
Policy Measures

AbstractThe present paper gives an overview of the reflections of and reactions to publishing the results of the first wave of the OECD study Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in the Czech Republic and in Germany. The choice of these two countries enables us to document how the same results could be perceived very differently in diverse country contexts and could lead to a different reaction from policy-makers. In spite of large reforms and numerous policy measures being adopted in Germany in reaction to the PISA results, compared with no response from policy-makers in the Czech Republic, it is argued, that in both countries policy-makers failed to tackle the major problem of their educational systems—its selective nature. In the final section we discuss various mis(uses) of PISA and its supranational and global character influencing local policies.

scholarly journals Examples of Recent Floods in Europe

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Knight ◽  
◽  
Paul Samuels ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Flood Events ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
The Uk

Some significant flood events that have occurred in various European countries in the last decade are described. They are used to illustrate the widespread nature of flooding, its economic impact and the resultant loss of life. The underlying hydro-meteorological causes of each flood are outlined, followed by a brief chronology of the flood event and the subsequent consequences. The flood events have been drawn from countries with differing climatic conditions, and from river basins that differ in both size and topography. The selection includes floods from the following countries: the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland and the UK. The events include examples of both flash floods and slower basin-wide floods. The important lessons that may be drawn from these events are highlighted, as are the economic impacts such floods might have in the future due to climate change.

scholarly journals Childcare policy in the Czech Republic and Norway: two countries, two paths with many possibilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Horák ◽  
Markéta Horáková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
School Age ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Dependent Children ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Childcare Policy

Abstract The objective of this paper is to analyse and compare the design and governance of the contemporary childcare policy in the Czech Republic and Norway in relation to the situation of households with dependent children under school age. Following this, we review certain provisions of the childcare policies of the two countries, whose systems possessed certain similarities at the beginning of the 1990s, although they represent distinct types of welfare state. Our analysis reveals that the chief differences in childcare policy have persisted and adapted to the key features of the welfare regimes. The two countries’ central childcare policy values contrast with each other (equity and free choice in Norway vs. re-familisation and strong ‘family dependency’ among individuals in the Czech Republic) and exhibit differences in the structure and extent of policy measures, as well. Policies in both are less sensitive to the needs of children with specific needs (such as migrants in Norway or Roma children in the Czech Republic).

scholarly journals Do the Subsidies Help the Young Farmers? The Case Study of the Czech Republic

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-262
Author(s):  
Marie Šimpachová Pechrová ◽  
Ondřej Šimpach
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Tax Relief ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Farm Transfer ◽  
On Farm

To ensure the generation renewal in the European Union there are subsidies for setting up of young farmers’ businesses and the retirement scheme and top-up direct payments. In the Czech Republic are provided subsides to interest rates with preference of young farmers and intergenerational succession of the farm is tax-free. Together with other incentives, those factors shall facilitate enter of young people to the sector. The aim of the paper is to assess whether the policy measures help the young farmers with setting-up of their business. Based on the primary survey on 510 young Czech farmers the most motivating for enter the sector were tax relief on transfer of the holding and top-up payment for young farmers. The farmers without background considered as sufficiently motivating the top-up payments more often than those with certain background who acknowledged more the top-up subsidies. Possible way how to facilitate the enter to the sector could be to keep the tax relief on farm transfer, to combine the measures for retirement and setting up of young farmers and provide investment subsidies or financial instruments for start-up. Top-up payments, despite motivational according to the farmers, are criticized as inefficient.

scholarly journals Costs related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy control in the Czech Republic in 2001–2008

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 (No. 3) ◽  
pp. 149-155
Author(s):  
R. Pospíšil
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Spongiform Encephalopathy ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Disease Eradication ◽  
Carcass Disposal ◽  
Positive Animal

This paper pays attention to and analyses two of the economic impacts of the BSE occurrence in the Czech Republic, namely the financial compensations to the farmers whose herds had been affected and the costs of animal killing and carcass disposal in the rendering plant. Between February 2001 and the end of June 2008, a total of 1 263 749 cows were examined and 28 cases of the BSE were detected. Consequently, 4 022 cows in cohorts were killed and their carcasses were safely disposed of. The farmers whose herds had been affected were provided compensations for the losses suffered. The total of the compensations in this period reached CZK 198,413 thousand. Of these, 83.3% (CZK 164.9 million) were compensations for the value of the killed animals, 9.7% (CZK 19.2 million) for the related costs, i.e., killing, safe disposal of carcasses and the examination for the BSE, and 6.9% (CZK 13.5 million) for the losses due to non-materialised production. The average costs per 1 BSE-positive animal were CZK 7.08 million and the average costs per 1 cohort animal were CZK 49 331. In the rendering plant responsible for killing the infected and cohort animals and safely disposing of their carcasses, the total of 2 221 tons of raw material was processed between March 2003 and February 2008, and this cost CZK 9 315 thousand. The fact that there were only two cases of the BSE in 2007 and none in 2008 suggests a trend towards the disease eradication, which is in agreement with the situation in the other EU countries.

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