This paper empirically confirms the significance of various links in each of two chains over time: from Economic Growth EG to Human Development HD, including EG itself, income distribution, the social expenditure ratio and female education; from HD to EG, including HD itself, along with the investment ratio. One most...
The United Nations UN is in a brand crisis. The damage to its reputation is significant, but if the organization is committed to making some significant changes, it's not too late to change course and correct its tainted image. This document depicts that like any business whose success relies heavily...
Achieving the right to education for persons with disabilities in basic education is a challenging task, but entirely necessary to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of education for all by the target date of 2015. The EFA Flagship entitled The Right to Education for Persons with Disabilities: Towards Inclusion has...
In the paper it is investigated and substantiated the thesis that today managing the public sector has become an increasingly demanding challenge for government and public managers. The paper is focused on public managers' competencies needed to meet the critical challenges of governance. On the base of analysis of the...
The purpose of the paper is to review the experience of developing country producers of goods and services in taking advantage of various initiatives, such as fair trade, codes of conduct and social labelling schemes. The focus is upon looking at such initiatives as ways of raising awareness of process...
This paper reviews trends of trades in financial service and major issues which have been raised in these negotiations so far. The WTO agreement on financial services reached in December 1997 is generally regarded as having contributed more to transparent policy regimes in the organization's member countries than to the...
In 1995, the Office of the Civil Service Commission of the Royal Thai Government prepared and published a Compendium of ASEAN Civil Service Systems. The ten member countries in the ASEAN provided information on various aspects of the civil service system, such as the level of employment population, position classification,...
This paper reviews this concept in the context of the history of the GATT/WTO and of different views as to its underlying rationale. It also takes a preliminary look at what a framework of variable geometry might involve and considers some of the benefits and problems likely to be associated...
This paper describes the code of business ethics which is a voluntary instrument and tool to promote business ethics, professional integrity transparency in conduct and transactions and the respect of contracts and commitments. It aims to combat bribery by enjoying the members of the Rassemblement de Dirigeants et Chefs d'Entreprises...
The aim of this paper is to develop a framework for understanding the role of citizen engagement in government, particularly public administration, and decision-making. The paper explores the concept of government-civil society engagement through, firstly, the principles of good governance and then in the context in which engagement occurs, that...
Based on a historical survey of the experiences of the USA, the EU member states and the East Asian economies, the paper argues that during their early stages of development, now-developed countries systematically discriminated between domestic and foreign investors in their industrial policy. They have used a range of instruments...
Drawing on the Indonesian experience in 1997, this paper demonstrates the complexity of managing banking crises deals. It aims at deriving conclusions from this experience for other developing countries facing similar problems. The paper also refers to comparative experiences of other countries, in particular Malaysia and Thailand, examines the IMF...
Political violence, conflict, terrorism cause severe dislocation to societies, often lead to losses of human lives and destroy economic assets. The causes of terrorism and conflict are very complex, often related to grievances associated with perceived social and economic injustices, the quest for political power and ideological, ethnic or religious...
This paper outlines work in ONS to improve measurement and understanding of information and communication technology ICT, and how its use affects economic activity. It reviews data on technology adoption, and changes in firm behaviour associated with electronic transactions. It also summarises work to identify economic effects of e-commerce, through...
The paper opens by mapping the changes in the global auto industry in the 1990s, showing how the rapid growth in sales and production between 1990 and 1997 came largely from the emerging markets rather than the Triad regions (North America, the European Union, and Japan). The paper then describes...
This paper analyses e-government and attempts to show that it is a major paradigm shift in the way that government and public administration are to function. From this particular point of view the periods of social development are reclassified according to the type of information produced and used and the...
The present paper emphasize the importance of improved checks and balances facilitated through: an integrated approach that is inclusive, comprehensive, transparent, non-partisan, evidence-based and impact-oriented; the empowerment of the victims of corruption through improved access to credible social control mechanisms; establishment of new national and international strategic partnerships involving civil...
The post-1994 Public Service faces enormous challenges, both in terms of its own transformation, and in terms of the transformation of the services which it provides to the people of South Africa. These challenges are being tackled through a comprehensive programme of policy initiatives underpinned by progressive legislative changes. The...
The paper presents a proposal for a development-oriented international competition authority to control anti-competitive conduct and growth by mergers of large multinationals. It is argued here that the current discourse on the development dimension of competition policy at the WTO is unsatisfactory; its terms and language need to be radically...
This paper represents the authors personal position on the possibility to create a barrier-free environment for the disabled in Ukraine. The paper is based on public policy analysis methodology widely used by western policy advisors. A review of cases from national and international experience is the basis for the recommendations....
