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A STUDY ON THE STAGE OF E-LEARNING DEVELOPMENT IN ROMANIA
Ana-Maria, PREDA; Lavinia, STÃNICÃ Justina; … - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2010) 1, pp. 827-833
This paper evaluates the stage of development of the e-learning system in Romania compared to other EU Member States, in the perspective of the newly proposed Europe 2020 strategy for a “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth”. Official statistics are essential in order to monitor these...
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Motives and strategies of CEOs for stimulating sharing and application of knowledge in the care and support for people with intellectual disabilities
Kersten, Marion; Taminiau, Elsbeth; Weggeman, Mathieu; … - In: Journal of knowledge management 26 (2022) 11, pp. 114-141
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Partisan Campaigning and Initiative Petition Signing in Direct Democracies
Hofer, Katharina E. - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 153 (2017) 3, pp. 261-291
This paper investigates whether popular initiatives signed by a larger share of the population have higher acceptance … rates at the subsequent vote. The main analysis is based on all Swiss federal initiatives voted between 1978 and 2000 with a …
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The Impact Of Voter Initiatives On Economic Activity
Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D.; Weerapana, Akila - 2001
Recent studies have claimed that states with initiatives systems of legislation use this more direct from of democracy … to improve productive resource allocation. This paper compares the economic performance of states with initiatives to … states that do not have initiatives. We first construct a simple growth model to identify the channel through which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263259
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Sustainable fiscal policy in a federal system: Switzerland as an example
Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2004
How a sustainable fiscal policy can be performed in a federal system is not only a Swiss problem but is also discussed in other federal countries like Germany and Austria, and in the European Union. Contrary to most other countries, the Swiss fiscal system is characterised by an extensive fiscal...
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The role of direct democracy in the European Union
Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2004
In this paper, the introduction of direct-democratic decision-making in all EU decisions is considered when it is feasible without prohibitively increasing decision-making costs. We start with the contractarian argument that each constitution is a contract joining the citizens of a state and...
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Managing technical knowledge to enhance organisational best practice
Bishop, James - 2009
problems in implementing and sustainingKnowledge Management (KM) initiatives. A key reason for this, which has been cited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461180
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HIV-inclusive and -sensitive cash transfer initiatives: Evidence from high-prevalence countries in Eastern and Southern Africa
de Arruda, Pedro Lara - 2019
There is growing consensus that the tools and knowledge exist to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030. To reach this goal, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has established the 90-90-90 strategy, which aims to ensure that by 2020, 90 per cent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268470
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Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare in India
Bajpai, Nirupam; Wadhwa, Manisha - 2021
focused solely on AI. However, recently, Government of India has taken various initiatives related to AI such as establishment …'s state governments have also taken few initiatives, such as establishment of Centre of Excellence for Data Science and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818694
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Correlates and determinants of direct democracy
Blume, Lorenz; Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2015
initiatives, based on the premise that constitutions themselves are endogenous. Our sample covers as many as 132 countries from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464636