Families with dependent children are among the social groups most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines the development of measures applied by the Czech national government for compensating families with children during the COVID-19 crisis. It summarizes the aims of the measures...

Improved service delivery (services are easier to use, more convenient, of better quality etc.) has been perceived as one of the key goals of e-government initiatives, next to the improvement of government business processes (increase in internal efficiency, better information sharing,...

Purpose: The current Covid-19 crisis research focuses especially on epidemiologic and macro-level socioeconomic aspects. It only marginally covers impacts on local budgets. Our intention is to enrich the existing limited debate on this dimension. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses a...

The aim of the paper is to outline an impact of the economic crisis on municipal budgets in the Czech Republic and to evaluate how selected municipalities with different level of delegated state administration dealt with the economic slump from the financial perspective. The results of our...