scholarly journals Expenditure Decentralization: Does It Make Us Happier? An Empirical Analysis Using a Panel of Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7236
Author(s):  
Leonardo E. Letelier-S ◽  
José L. Sáez-Lozano
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Government ◽  
Decentralization Of Education ◽  
Data Level

This paper analyzes whether fiscal decentralization of education, health, housing, social protection, recreation, culture and religion, public order and safety, and transportation have a significant effect on individual well-being. The empirical analysis is based on a non-linear hierarchical model that combines individual data (level 1) with country-level data (level 2). We match 89,584 observations from the World Value Service and the European Value Service (various years) with the average value of data recorded for 30 countries by the Government Financial Statistics (IMF). While fiscal decentralization in education and housing appears to have a negative effect on well-being, this effect is positive in the cases of health and culture and recreation. We interpret this as evidence in favor of a “selective” decentralization approach.

scholarly journals Well-Being as Human Development, Equality, Happiness and the Role of Freedom, Activism, Decentralization, Volunteerism and Voter Participation: A Global Country-Level Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas D. Perkins ◽  
Mehmet Reha Ozgurer ◽  
Andrew Lupton ◽  
Shadi Omidvar-Tehrani
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
National Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Voter Participation ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Average Life Expectancy ◽  
Country Level

We propose and test a new model for predicting multiple quantitative measures of well-being globally at the country level based on the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), income inequality (Net Gini), and National Happiness Index (NHI; U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network world survey of life satisfaction). HDI consists of per-capita Gross National Income (economic well-being), average life expectancy (proxy for health well-being), and educational attainment (capabilities well-being). Using data on 105 countries representing 95% of the world’s population, a history of grassroots activism (Global Non-violent Action Database), civil liberties and political rights (Freedom Score), political and fiscal decentralization, and voter participation (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) correlate with HDI and NHI. Citizen volunteering (Gallup Civic Engagement Index) predicts only NHI. In multivariate analyses, Freedom Score is the most robust predictor of all well-being measures, including income equality. Fiscal decentralization and voter turnout also predict HDI and NHI, controlling for other influences. Based on prior analyses in the Global Development of Applied Community Studies project, implications and recommendations are discussed for developing community human research and professional resources across 12 disciplines in countries where they are needed based on social justice, citizenship, well-being, inequality, human rights, and other development challenges. We recommend individual and community-level and qualitative analyses of the above predictors’ relationships with these same conceptualizations of well-being, as well as consideration of other social, cultural and political variables and their effect on well-being.

scholarly journals THE RECONSTRUCTION OF POLICY RELATED TO THE OPTIMISATION ON NATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY PUBLIC MEMBERSHIP

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-214
Author(s):  
Nabitatus Sa'adah
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Analytic Description ◽  
Normative Approach ◽  
Legal Structure ◽  
The Government ◽  
Payment Arrears

One of the people’s needs in terms of effort to manifest the purpose of the state which is to establish national well-being is by providing social security. Social security is a form of social protection to meet citizens' basic needs. Associated with the implementation of national social security, the government obligates its citizens to participate in the program. However, the fact was there are still many citizens which are reluctantly participating in the program. It is leading to funding collection to be not optimal and affecting the implementation of social security. The research is adopting normative approach, which is stressed on the secondary data. The research specification is an analytic description with qualitative analysis. The national social security is a compulsory program for all of the Indonesian citizens particularly for the independent level, however, not all have joined it particularly self-referred participants. Several aspects causing this problematic program, such as the lack of people's awareness. The lack of people discipline toward the payment, ineffective sanctions and lack of service, are proved with the abundant number of payment arrears by independent participants. The reconstruction of optimization of National Social Security Program is managed with the improvement of legal substance, legal structure and legal culture.

PROJECT ACTIVITY AS A FORM OF REGIONAL SUPPORT OF THE FAMILY, MOTHERHOOD AND CHILDHOOD

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
N.V. Zakharkina ◽  
I.V. Iljin
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Project Activity ◽  
Country Level ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Health And Well Being

Social protection of motherhood and childhood is a subject of special attention of the state as through the care about health and well-being of women and children the country’s healthy pop-ulation increase is guaranteed. Project activity plays special role in effective social support of families with children at the country level in general and at the level of its separate regions. In the article the authors study project initiatives on the family, motherhood and childhood regional support on the example of Lipetsk region.

scholarly journals Ecology and Happiness: how Air Pollution influences Happiness of the Population

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
D. O. Solonina ◽  
K. E. Oshmarina ◽  
I. O. Karev
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
The Government

Recent decades have seen accelerating interest in key factors of happiness driven by patterns of modern life. While more and more often global communities appeal to wider audiences, highlighting the need to commit to achievement of major goals of sustainable development, elimination of negative footprint and raising the bar of living standards, people are paying more attention to the living conditions they find themselves in. The government is focused on life satisfaction to identify major areas for improvement and to develop effective policy measures. This paper aims to estimate how and to which extent unfavorable ecological situation, primarily low air quality, impact population well-being and happiness. Recent studies point out that environmental conditions considerably influence subjective life satisfaction of an individual. On these pages, we test the relation between air pollution and people’s happiness at country level. Our findings show significantly negative impact, which signals the need to reduce emissions and propose solutions to lower the level of air pollution.

Is procrastination a “friend or foe”? Building the relationship between fear of the failure and entrepreneurs’ well-being

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahadur Ali Soomro ◽  
Naimatullah Shah
Keyword(s):  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Fear Of Failure ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose In the present era, entrepreneurs’ well-being is considered a significant factor owing to its strong relationship with entrepreneurship. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the relationship between fear of failure and entrepreneurs’ well-being through the mediating effect of procrastination. Design/methodology/approach This study is descriptive, with cross-sectional data obtained through a survey questionnaire distributed randomly in Pakistan. Overall, data from 346 valid cases were used to achieve suitable study outcomes. Findings This study’s empirical findings highlight the negative effect of fear of failure on subjective well-being. Fear of failure is found to have a significant positive effect on procrastination. Furthermore, procrastination has a negative effect on subjective well-being. Finally, procrastination has a negative role in mediating the relationship between fear of failure and subjective well-being. Practical implications The conceptualization of the fear of failure and procrastination (direct and indirect) in relation to subjective well-being may offer a novel contribution in terms of a framework, policymaking and practice. Policymakers, top management and the government may consider the hindering effects of procrastination and fear of failure on entrepreneurs’ well-being and ventures’ success. The study findings may also enrich views in the literature on entrepreneurship and management, particularly in the developing country context. Originality/value This study could be helpful in eradicating the traps of procrastination and fear of failure, raising entrepreneurs’ confidence and levels of activity.

FCTC Ratification, Smoking Prevalence and GDP per Capita : Lesson Learn for Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdillah Ahsan ◽  
Rifai Afin ◽  
Nadira Amalia ◽  
Martha Hindriyani ◽  
Ardhini Risfa Jacinda
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Smoking Prevalence ◽  
Tobacco Industry ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background The stagnated tobacco control progress in Indonesia needs to be accelerated through a more comprehensive implementation of Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (FCTC) measurement. Nevertheless, the tobacco industry argument concerning the negative economic impacts of tobacco control still hinders the government to ratify or even sign the FCTC, which has been ratified by more than 180 countries. This study aims to bring the empirical evidence on the tobacco industry argument concerning FCTC. This study applied two stage least square estimation strategy to unbalanced panel data at country level. On the first stage we estimate the impact FCTC ratification on smoking activity, and on the second step, estimating the influence of smoking activities on macroeconomic performance.Results The result of this study shows that FCTC ratification is negatively related to a country’s smoking prevalence, in which the ratifying party of FCTC has lower smoking prevalence. Moreover, country who ratifies FCTC longer is also associated with lower smoking prevalence. Whereas FCTC ratification is beneficial in reducing smoking prevalence, the declining smoking prevalence is not related to the decline in GDP per capita.Conclusions The result of this study shows the decrease in smoking prevalence has nothing to do with the macroeconomic indicator. Hence, FCTC ratification, which is an important driver for tobacco control actions acceleration, should not be seen as a backfire to the economy. Instead, FCTC ratification could be mutually beneficial for the health and economic aspects as it provides comprehensive guidance and protocols by taking into account the well-being states of both aspects.

scholarly journals Poverty Factors in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutyia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Tuyara Gavril’yeva ◽  
Anna Naberezhnaya, ◽  
Marina Ivanova ◽  
Filipp Nikiforov
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Poor People ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
Low Efficiency

The Object of the Study The dynamics of indicators that comprehensively characterize poverty in the Republic Yakutiya has been analysed.The Subject of the Study The dynamics of poor people number in the region. The Purpose of the Study Is th determination of the endogenous (internal) factors of poverty based on the methods of economic and mathematical modeling and further development of perspective socialThe Main Theoretical Provision. The social policy of the government of the republic over the past decade has focused on employment, birth rate, housing, sustainable rural development, but program activities did not take into account the differentiation of social groups, with their low efficiency. The current moment seems to be a possible transition point to a more effective and adequate social policy. The structured database related to measurements of social well-being and living standards of the population in Yakutiya from 1995-2017 was created on the basic on open information of the Sakha (Yakutia)stat. It was used for determining the main factors and regional characteristics of poverty in Yakutiya. The factors that have the most significant impact on the level of poverty in the region were selected based on the correlation analysis. A linear regression model was created where the number of poor people was taken as the dependent variable. It has been proved that the number of poor people has a direct positive relationship with the indicators “number of pensioners” and “expenses of the consolidated budget of Yakutiya” and inverse relationship with “housing per capita”, "the real dynamics of the GRP" and "the population monetary incomes". Based on quantitative and qualitative analysis, the endogenous factors of poverty in the region were identified: high cost of living, low correlation of poverty with employment, wage disparities, as well as high fertility. Proposals of targeted social policy have been developed. They include: revision of the legal framework in the field of social protection, improvement of targeting social assistance, reviewing the demographic priorities of social policy, a maneuver in public sector jobs , the development of poverty monitoring and social assistance delivery based on digitalization, social experiments on poverty alleviation, including Universal Basic Income model for indigenous communes

scholarly journals Determinants Influencing the Level of Corruption in Indonesia Local Governments

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4(J)) ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
Muhammad Syauqi Qur’ani Putra Ariva ◽  
Ermawati .
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Government Size ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Corruption Perception ◽  
The Government ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Size Variable

This study is based on the high levels of corruption occurring in Indonesia, indicated by the low level of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI). The majority of corruption cases occurring in Indonesia involves local governmental institutions. The high levels of corruption in local governments is related to government size, fiscal decentralization, and audit findings. The aim of this study is to determine the factors that cause the high levels of corruption in local governments. This study uses the agency theory as theoretical basis to formulate a framework of thought that connects government size, fiscal decentralization, audit findings, and corruption levels. The result of this study shows that the variables of government size, fiscal decentralization, audit findings, all have significant effects towards corruption levels. Fiscal decentralization and audit findings have a negative effect towards corruption level, while the government size variable has a positive effect on corruption levels. This study provides contribution to the practices of auditing, government execution, law enforcement, and corruption control initiatives in local governments in Indonesia

scholarly journals ORIGINS OF THE CONCEPT OF “LIBERTARIAN PATERNALISM” IN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE: SOCIAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECT

2021 ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
A. Kravchenko ◽  
S. Bezrukov
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Libertarian Paternalism ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

In the article, the authors attempt to analyze the various origins of libertarian paternalism - political, social, cultural, and try to explore the essence of this social and social phenomenon. Libertarian paternalism has both positive and negative features, which are actualized, in turn, by modern planetary challenges.The aim and the tasks: analysis of the essence of the social phenomenon of libertarian paternalism, and the study of its origins - political, social, cultural. Research methods are historical, structural and functional, systemic and equitable.For the revision of specific projects, it is also the principle of consistency, objectivity, convergence from the abstract to the concrete. Research results: Democracy and human rights have found themselves in the grip of challenges, to which both the government and the private sector of the economy in particular react in a peculiar way. In the civilized world, the problem of social protection is acute; an ordinary person dramatically perceives the massive pressure of advertising, the media, certain structures that are interested, first of all, in the early sale of their products - material, spiritual and social. Libertarian paternalism is seen by the authors as a possible way to reconcile these issues, especially from the point of view of protecting the human rights and freedoms. Discussion. In this regard, other authors note that in the practical implementation of Nudge technology, people rarely follow the ideal interpretation of private well-being in terms of full satisfaction of needs. Opponents suggest in this regard that people can be guided by temporary benefits in terms of irrational consumer behavior, that is, the socio-psychological bases of consumerism are affected. Conclusion. Libertarian paternalism was created as a reaction to political, economic and sociocultural changes in society under the impact of globalization, informatization and revision of social programs in the governments.The concept of libertarian paternalism and its practical implementation of nudge technology is relevant and promising in the context of a constant increase in the level of welfare of citizens. Libertarian paternalism affects the most subtle sociophilosophical, socio-psychological elements of the consciousness of an individual who has become hostage to government programs and private projects. The price of a rational choice of an individual is his own freedom, in the context of modern realities of social life.

scholarly journals The Harmonized Social Cash Transfer Program in Zimbabwe: Achievements and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5(J)) ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Witness Chikoko ◽  
Kudzai Nyabeze ◽  
Kwashirai Zvokuomba ◽  
Kudzai Mwapaura ◽  
Samson Mhizha
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Government

The research article reviews the achievements and challenges that bewilder the harmonized social cash transfer (HSCT) program in Zimbabwe. World over HSCT programming has grown in terms of importance as a social protection service vehicle. Deploying a qualitative research design and documentary analytical framework corroborated by the capability approach, the study unpacks and brings to the fore the challenges and opportunities as nuances of HSCT programming in Zimbabwe. The study supports, adds another dimension to existing literature and challenges previous findings of HSCT programming in the Zimbabwean environment. Thus the study argues that HSCT programming in Zimbabwe registered noticeable achievements which make it a critical social protection program that ought to be integrated into the broader national framework of protecting the vulnerable groups. The study further argues that the HSCT program contributes immensely to raising the dignity of those on the margins through the promotion of resiliency and the general well-being of the communities. Thus the study recommends that the HSCT program in Zimbabwe be part of the government and not-for-profit organizations’ comprehensive package for administering social protection services.

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