Interestingly, those with high government effectiveness (i.e., those with high-quality public and civil services, policy formulation, and policy implementation) were slower to implement such policies [36] as were the more right-leaning governments [37]. Further, more democratic countries have ...
society." Professor Martin Jacques observed in his articleChinese vs. Western Governance: the Case of COVID-19that "now it is revealed to the world that Western governments wasted a minimum of two and a half months. Western governance has proven to be blinded by its own hubris, unable to ...
Supporting Putnam, this paper finds that variations in the quality of democratic governments in Italy's regions are a function of civic community even after adjusting for the presence of the Italian Communist Party.doi:10.1080/13532944.2014.969215Barceló...
especially in high, dry places where nothing grows terribly well. When farmers give up trying to earn a living from farming or herding trees simply move in. The second is government policy and subsidy. (53) Throughout history, governments have protected and promoted forests for diverse reasons,...
Poland joined the European Union in 2005 and since then more than half amillion people have moved to Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy. Even so, the population of those four countries andmany other countries in West Europe is also going down.Many governments are now encouraging people to ...
According to Milton Friedman, who is a Nobel Prize-winning economist, governments have created unnecessary licensing laws that apply to the medical profession. This ends up artificially restricting the supply of medical professionals which drives their prices upwards. Also, the government has been accus...
Hence, governments have been induced to invest in education and research while responding to the aspirations of individuals seeking upward mobility in an expanding economy. In the countries sampled in this article, the proportion of the population aged 25–54 years completing post-secondary ...
4 Italy 161.8 5 Portugal 137.2 6 Singapore 131.2 7 USA 131.2Source: IMF How Is the US National Debt Calculated? The US national debt is subdivided into two sections: Debt held by the public Intragovernmental holdings. The IMF figure for the USA’s debt-to-GDP ratio of 131.2% includes both...
In some regions, governments may provide subsidies or other incentives to encourage the use of renewable energy, which may help reduce energy intensity. However, in other regions, such policies may be absent or insufficient to offset the impact of income inequality (Zhang and Wang, 2022). ...
This study investigates the role of institutional quality in the cost efficiency of social services provided by local governments in Italy. Using a newly developed panel stochastic frontier approach, we address the issue of endogeneity, which can lead to biased estimates in efficiency analyses. By an...