La riforma dei servizi pubblici locali: un cannone caricato a salve?

2009 ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Antonio Massarutto
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Design Issues ◽  
Auction Design ◽  
Competitive Tendering ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Jel Classifications

- The Italian Parliament has recently passed a new reform of local utilities. Compulsory competitive tendering will be the rule, while direct public management will be confined only to very special cases. The article discusses the scope of the reform and its main weaknesses: the excessive width of the focus, the uncertainty on auction design issues and the lack of a proper regulatory framework besides the tender. Policy reform recommendations are proposed with the aim of informing the next phase of the policy, namely the translation of the frame legislation into detailed regulation.Key words: local utilities; liberalization.JEL classifications: L9, H4

The organisation & the costs of the decommissioning nuclear plants in the UK

2009 ◽  
pp. 63-82
Author(s):  
Steve Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Fuels ◽  
Nuclear Facilities ◽  
Nuclear Decommissioning ◽  
Nuclear Plants ◽  
New Public ◽  
Public Body ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Jel Classifications

- UK electricity consumers have paid provisions for decommissioning since before 1980 but by 2002, there were still negligible funds available to pay for decommissioning civil nuclear facilities. By then, the two major UK nuclear companies, British Energy and British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL), were both effectively bankrupt. This paper examines: the pre-2002 provisions for decommissioning and how they were lost; the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, a new public body which took over ownership of BNFL's facilities including the duty to manage their decommissioning and how it expects to carry out and fund decommissioning of its sites; how the re-launched British Energy will contribute to decommissioning its eight plants; and government plans for collecting decommissioning provisions for any new plants.JEL classifications: L50, L38, H23, H44, L71Key words: Nuclear power, decommissioning cost, funding and polluter pays.

scholarly journals El género, los hombres y las mujeres

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Ninfa Stella Cárdenas Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Recent Discussion ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Las Mujeres

ResumenEste artículo es un producto del proyecto de investigación Del análisis textual al análisis del discurso: un estudio de la lengua del fútbol, que pertenece al grupo de investigación Fray Antón de Montesinos: lenguajes y universos simbólicos de la Universidad Santo Tomás. El texto pretende hacer un acercamiento a un problema de reciente discusión: ¿es sexista la lengua? ¿es la lengua un instrumento de discriminación? Y, por lo tanto, ¿un instrumento para mantener la desigualdad entre los hombres y las mujeres? Aunque el texto no responde directa y ampliamente a estas preguntas, plantea el carácter no sexista de la lengua, a partir de los casos especiales de la flexión de género en español para sustentar así que, desde la gramática de nuestra lengua, el uso del masculino genérico es una forma de inclusión, y no de exclusión, del género femenino.Palabras Clave: Lengua, gramática, género, masculino, femenino, discriminación, discurso.******************************************************************Gender, men and womenAbstractThe current article is a product of the research project From text analysis to discourse analysis: a study of the language of football, belonging to the research group Fray Antón de Montesinos at Universidad Santo Tomás: Languages and symbolic universes. The text aims at approaching a problem under recent discussion: Is language sexist? Is language an instrument of discrimination? And if so, is language an instrument to maintain inequality between men and women? Even though the text does not answer these questions directly or broadly, it states there is a non-sexist nature of language departing from special cases of the gender flexion in Spanish to state that, from the grammar of our language, the use of the masculine generic form is a way of inclusion, not of exclusion of the feminine gender. Key words: language, grammar, gender, masculine, feminine, discrimination, discourse******************************************************************O gênero, os homens e as mulheresResumoEste artigo é um produto do projeto de investigação Da análise textual à análise do discurso: um estudo da língua do futebol, que pertence ao grupo de pesquisa Fray Antón de Montesinos: linguagens e universos simbólicos da Universidade Santo Tomás. O texto pretende fazer uma aproximação a um problema de recente discussão: é sexista a língua?, é a língua um instrumento de discriminação? E, em consequência, um instrumento para perpetuar a desigualdade entre homens e mulheres? Ainda que o texto não responda direta e amplamente a estas perguntas, propõe o caráter não sexista da língua, partindo dos casos de flexão de gênero em espanhol para sustentar assim que, partindo da gramática de nossa língua, o uso do masculino genérico é uma forma de inclusão e não de exclusão do gênero feminino.Palavras chave: Língua, gramática, gênero, masculino, feminino, discriminação, discurso.

Korea’s Government reform in public policy and management

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-265
Author(s):  
Jin Park
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Government Reform ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Presidential Transition ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Management Reform ◽  
The Government ◽  
Future Direction

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the historical path and the future direction of the government reform initiative in Korea regarding the public policy and management reform. Design/methodology/approach Analysis of National Agenda published by the Presidential Transition Committees of each president for the past 20 years. Findings Public policy reform has been rather slow or even has gone backwards for some periods of time in Korea. The market intervention by the government needs to be reduced whereas its role in the social welfare or people’s quality of life should be expanded. President needs to create a reform-driving agency to design a new paradigm of government role. Originality/value There has been no research that has investigated Korea’s Government reform with the framework of public management and public policy reform.

scholarly journals Contribución territorial: alternativa para mitigar externalidades negativas de la actividad minera del níquel

ECA Sinergia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Leonardo Rodríguez Mestre ◽  
Clara Luz Reynaldo Arguelles ◽  
Yaimary Marreno Ancizar ◽  
Raudelis Peña Breffe
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Distribution Of Income ◽  
Different Levels

  En Cuba todos los ingresos generados por los tributos ambientales se aportan directamente al presupuesto del Estado, por lo que se propone perfeccionar la distribución de los ingresos y gastos en consonancia con las responsabilidades distribuidas entre los diferentes niveles de gobierno con la intención de propender al ejercicio racional de las facultades que les son inherentes a cada uno de ellos, de modo de alcanzar un adecuado equilibrio institucional, la concreción de la real descentralización fiscal, la búsqueda de eficiencia y equidad en la asignación de los ingresos y gastos sociales así como la transparencia de la gestión pública, por lo que se propone la utilización de un porcentaje de la Contribución Territorial para el Desarrollo Local, independientemente del cumplimiento o no de la captación de los ingresos cedidos, para hacer del municipio de Moa un espacio sustentable.   Palabras clave: contribución territorial, Externalidades negativas, Desarrollo local.   ABSTRACT In Cuba, all income generated by environmental taxes is contributed directly to the state budget, so it is proposed to improve the distribution of income and expenses in line with the responsibilities distributed among the different levels of government with the intention of providing for the exercise rational of the powers that are inherent to each of them, in order to achieve an adequate institutional balance, the realization of real fiscal decentralization, the search for efficiency and equity in the allocation of income and social expenses as well as transparency of public management, so it is proposed the use of a percentage of the Territorial Contribution for Local Development, regardless of compliance or not with the collection of the income assigned, to make the municipality of Moa a sustainable space.   Key words: territorial Contribution, Negative Externalities, Local Development

A STUDY OF REDUCTION FORMULA FOR GENERALISED H-FUNCTION OF TWO VARIABLES

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (ws01) ◽  
Author(s):  
mudassir nazir ◽  
vimal katta
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Mellin Transform ◽  
Reduction Formula ◽  
Geometric Function ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Function Of Two Variables

In the present paper, the author has introduced reduction formula for Generalised H-Function of two variables. This paper deals with certain identities and reduction formulae for generalised H-Function, which are of great interest and generalise many known and unknown results in literature, especially the results given by Srivastava [1] and Cook [2]. Also some interesting special cases of H- Functions have been taken in which H-Function of two variables has reduced to one variable. Key Words: H-Function, Hyper geometric Function, Mellin Transform, H-Function of one and two variables.

A results-based system for regulating reforestation obligations

2002 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J Martin ◽  
Shane Browne-Clayton ◽  
Eleanor McWilliams
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Species Composition ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Management Unit ◽  
Site Quality ◽  
Yield Prediction ◽  
Performance Targets ◽  
Target Performance ◽  
Stand Height

A results-based system for the regulation of reforestation obligations is described. The system involves establishing performance targets for harvested areas, surveying areas after harvest to assess achieved performance, and maintaining a ledger to tally target and achieved performance over a large number of cutblocks. The obligation to reforest is considered met when total achieved performance exceeds total target performance evaluated over all cutblocks. Reforestation performance is indexed by predicted merchantable volume per hectare 80 years after harvest. To obtain these volume predictions, areas are surveyed 10 years after harvest and estimates of site quality, tree stocking, species composition, and stand height are input to a set of yield prediction tables. This results-based system, which we believe improves the regulatory framework governing the reforestation of harvested areas, will be tested in a management unit (TFL 49) in southern British Columbia in 2002. Key words: results-based regulations, reforestation, yield prediction, silviculture

Competition Policy in the Wine Industry in Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 90-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Minuto Rizzo
Keyword(s):  
Mergers And Acquisitions ◽  
Competition Policy ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Wine Industry ◽  
Wine Sector ◽  
Jel Classifications

AbstractIn recent years, several European antitrust authorities intervened in the wine sector to authorize mergers and acquisitions, provide opinions to governments, and ascertain anticompetitive agreements. This article analyzes these interventions in the context of an evolving regulatory framework. I draw conclusions about the direction of competition policy, in particular in relation to possible co-operations among various players in the wine industry. (JEL Classifications: K21, L40, L51)

scholarly journals The formalization of temporary urbanism in Toronto and proposed equity-based regulatory framework

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Plunkett-Latimer
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Urban Discourse ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

In the past decade since the introduction of temporary urban discourse promising “faster, lighter, and cheaper” planning and a radical reorganization of power between regulators, land owners, and the public, temporary urbanism has become increasingly integrated in formal planning structures. This paper explores how temporary urbanism is being practiced in Toronto and what impact this formalizing process has had on its ability to achieve its claimed goals of democracy, equity, and diversity. This paper specifically assesses the impact that the City of Toronto’s regulatory framework has had on these goals. It concludes by examining how three other cities have created temporary use frameworks, Amsterdam, London, and Vancouver and highlights what lessons can be transferred to the context of Toronto. Key words: temporary urbanism, policy, equity

Narratives of Health Policy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Currie ◽  
Graham Martin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Regulatory Bodies

In this chapter we undertake a narrative analysis of health care policy reform. We consider the beguiling and rhetorical quality of health care policy reform, and how it positions “heroes” and “villains” as it attempts to shape imagined futures, under three narrative themes—management, measurement; markets. However, we highlight the policy narrative is not entirely beguiling. A countervailing professional narrative argues that regulatory bodies and clients put their trust in the experts, which has made change slow to realize in some areas. Meanwhile, a narrative critical of policy reform makes the case for a return to bureaucracy to counter excesses of flexibility, adaptability and emphasis upon delivery associated with new public management and entrepreneurial governance. To illustrate our analysis, we draw upon a particularly propitious health care setting for policy reform, that of the English NHS. We suggest our analysis is not just transferable to other national contexts, underpinned by new public managment policy, but extends to reforms in other national settings, although the detail of the management, measurement and market themes may vary on the ground, as illustrated in the case of the US and Nordic countries.

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