To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...

Az önkormányzatok gazdasági-társadalmi konstrukciója nagymértékben eltérő lehet az OECD tagországok között, melyek az történelmi hagyományok, a decentralizációs hagyományok tükrében igen eltérőek, melyeket az önkormányzati rendszermodellek írnak le. A kutatásunk célja,...

This study examines the impacts of socioeconomic characteristics of a region on the availability of resources for public elementary and secondary education. A public school administrator is assumed to be confronted with a problem analogous to that confronted by any other firm manager. An...

USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) finances about 13.5 percent of its budget outlays through user fees for overtime and unscheduled meat and poultry inspections. User fees play an increasingly important role in financing government programs, and FSIS has frequently requested...