Programs in aid of the poor

This is a businesslike, readable, and generally useful little guide to and commentary on the United States' organized antipoverty efforts... The programs are set forth in logical sequence, measured in dollar and manpower terms, and briefly evaluated against their objectives... We have here a remarkably ...

Profili di economia aziendale e di ragioneria

Volume secondo-La rilevazione contabile delle operazioni di gestione

Democracia y presupuestos participativos

Principios de gestión administrativa pública

Service public et principe de précaution

Limits to globalization

welfare states and the world economy

This text argues for the need to understand developments in welfare and social provision alongside the processes of globalization. In the two decades following World War II, the massive expansion of the welfare state system arguably allowed Western governments to expose their societies to uncontrollable ...

On global aging

Old-age income systems in the EU and other major parts of the world

Virtually all countries in the world are experiencing an aging of their populations due to declining fertility rates and rising longevity. Aging has been the subject of much discussion in the last decade, often expressed in alarmist language. On Global Aging presents a more optimistic ...

Calidad y excelencia en las Administraciones Públicas

3 mejores prácticas españolas

Manual de Renta Básica

La Renta Básica exige formularse muchas y variadas preguntas. Desde las más elementales, como las referidas al contenido y alcance de la misma, hasta las más especulativas, como la de si será capaz de acabar con el modelo económico actual, pasando por aquellas otras que ...

Controlling public expenditure

the changing roles of Central budget agencies -better guardians?

#This is an excellent book that should be read by students and scholars of public budgeting. It contains a balance of works by some of the world#s experts in the field. The book is well-organized and the chapters are well- written, referenced and edited ...

La reforma administrativa del ciudadano

Presupuesto, coyuntura y crecimiento

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº 177, 2003)

El futuro del sistema de pensiones en España

El gasto público en democracia

estudios en el XXV aniversario de la Constitución Española de 1978

Economía de la pobreza

Esta obra está estructurada en tres partes bien definidas. La primera responde a un estudio de la pobreza en el contexto de los países industrializados, de sus causas y de su extensión La segunda parte estudia las políticas de protección social y, más especialmente aquellas ...

Distributional justice

theory and measurement

Introducing the main theories of distributional justice the book covers utilitarianism and welfare economics, moving on to Rawls's social contract and the Sen/Nussbaum capability approach with a refreshingly readable style. There is a chapter covering the position of mothers and children in theories ...

The moral economy of welfare states

Britain and Germany compared

This text investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realizes large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau introduces the concept of "the moral economy" to show that acceptance of welfare exchanges rests on moral assumptions and ideas ...

Holding power to account

accountability in modern democracies

This book provides a general overview of accountability, a key concept in modern democratic governance. Richard Mulgan draws on examples and analyses from the United States and the United Kingdom as well as other 'Westminster' countries. Major topics discussed include the contrast between accountability in ...

La Administración al servicio del ciudadano europeo

encuesta relativa a: Las actividades de calidad en las Administraciones Públicas de los Estados miembros de la Unión Europea, IPSG (Grupo de Servicios Públicos Innovadores). Junio 2002

Managing complexity in the public services

ÍNDICE:1.Acknowledgements.2.Introduction.3.Management, professions and the public service context.4.What is complexity?.5.People in public organizations.6.Complexity and the performance of public services.7.Strategy and planning in an unstable world.8.The use and value of Information ...