Challenges to Local Authorities under EU Structural Funds: Evidence from Mixed Quasi-markets for Public Service Provision in Romania

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 1108-1123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Pop ◽  
Roxana Radu
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Public Service Provision ◽  
Eu Structural Funds

scholarly journals Firms and Public Service Provision in Russia

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pertti Haaparanta ◽  
Tuuli Juurikkala ◽  
Olga Lazareva ◽  
Jukka Pirttila ◽  
Laura Solanko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Public Service Provision

scholarly journals Fostering public accountability in South Africa: A reflection on challenges and successes

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pandelani H. Munzhedzi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Public Accountability ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current State ◽  
Public Service Provision ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government

Accountability and oversight are constitutional requirements in all the spheres of government in the Republic of South Africa and their foundation is in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1996. All spheres of government are charged with the constitutional mandate of providing public services. The level of responsibility and public services provision also goes with the level of capacity of a particular sphere. However, most of the direct and visible services that the public receives are at the local sphere of government. As such, enormous resources are channelled towards this sphere of government so that the said public services could be provided. It is imperative that the three spheres of government account for the huge expenditures during the public service provision processes. The parliaments of national and provincial governments exercise oversight and accountability over their executives and administrations through the Public Accounts Committees, while the local sphere of government relies on the Municipal Public Accounts Committees. This article is theoretical in nature, and it seeks to explore the current state of public accountability in South Africa and to evaluate possible measures so as to enhance public accountability. The article argues that the current public accountability mechanisms are not efficient and effective. It is recommended that these mechanisms ought to be enhanced by inter alia capacitating the legislative bodies at national, provincial and local spheres of the government.

Options for Applying Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions (FOCJs) for Municipal Cooperation in Russia

2017 ◽  
pp. 73-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Friedrich ◽  
Mariia Chebotareva
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Environments ◽  
Public Service Provision ◽  
Service Activities ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Legal Forms

Municipal cooperation is important for transformation countries, like Russia, which have to develop legal, institutional and political environments for public service activities. The authors recommend FOCJs as an instrument for coordinated municipal public service provision. To determine the suitability of FOCJs the analyst has to investigate the relation between FOCJ theory, their financing possibilities, the fiscal effects, and the legal forms in which FOCJs can operate in Russia. The authors define several forms of FOCJs and sort out appropriate public enterprises of private and public law for Russian FOCJ. To analyse the establishment, the operations, and the competition between FOCJs the authors present three types of models. One relates to the establishment of an FOCJ, the second concentrates on financing service activities, and the third model deals with competition among FOCJs and demonstrates the effects of different ways of finance. The article concludes with elaborating recommendations for financing FOCJ under conditions in Russia.

Strategies for Growth and Employment Creation in a Services-Based Economy

2020 ◽  
pp. 255-288
Author(s):  
Anne Wren
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Employment Creation ◽  
Skill Formation ◽  
High Productivity ◽  
Public Service Provision ◽  
Traditional Manufacturing ◽  
The Uk

This chapter focuses on the role of skill formation, wage-setting, and public service provision in shaping different national growth strategies in a post-industrial context, taking the cases of Germany, Sweden, and the UK as detailed examples and making use of data from the EU-KLEMS Growth and Productivity Accounts Database (2008). It highlights the role played by skills policy in shaping patterns of specialization in high productivity, traded sectors, which are important engines of growth even in “consumption-led” regimes. It shows that Sweden’s ability to compete in less price-sensitive, high-end services (and manufacturing) markets rests on the availability of a workforce with high levels of tertiary skills. Germany’s reliance on more traditional manufacturing sectors is rooted in its well-established system of firm-based vocational training and its limited tertiary sector. In the UK, the expansion of domestic demand has, in part, been debt-driven, although it has also, as in the Swedish case, been facilitated by rising real wages. Nevertheless, a key driver of rising real wages in the UK has also been productivity growth and the expansion of trade in high-end, ICT-intensive services. The chapter confirms that welfare state policies (including the protection of relative wages, public service provision, and, above all, strategies of skill formation) are critical to the outcomes observed in the context of deindustrialization and technological change. The development of sustainable strategies for growth and employment creation in a context of deindustrialization, and of revolutionary changes in ICT, rely on the creation of a capacity to expand into ICT-intensive, high value-added sectors, and especially in dynamic services sectors.

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