Drei große Reformenpakete und eine Reihe kleinerer Begleitmaßnahmen prägen das renten¬politische Erbe der rot-grünen Bundesregierung. Einerseits greifen sie Trends in der Reformpolitik seit Beginn der 90er Jahre auf. So verstärkt die Rentenstrukturreform 2001 beispielsweise die...

The United States has aggressively embarked on the challenging task of building a National Information Infrastructure (NII). This infrastructure will have many levels, extending from the building block capital stock that composes the telecommunications system to the multitude of higher tier...

The number of workers currently involved in the various aspects of geothermal development in the Geysers are identified. Using two different development scenarios, projections are made for the number of power plants needed to reach the electrical generation capacity of the steam resource in the...

Geothermal development in The Geysers KGRA has affected local public services and fiscal resources in Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino, and Napa counties. Each of these counties underwent rapid population growth between 1970 and 1980, some of which can be attributed to geothermal development. The number...

Corruption costs the Water, Sanitation and Electricity (WSE) sectors millions of dollars everyyear, siphoning off scarce monetary resources and diminishing a country’s prospects forproviding these crucial utilities for all. This paper examines how corruption manifests itself inthe WSE sectors...

Non-governmental non-profit organizations are significant actors in the sphere of social services nowadays. The goal of this thesis is to prove that non-government non-profit organizations working in the sphere of social services are progressively being professionalized, reaching the same level...

In the context of economic and social realities of our country, more and more elderly choose to spend the last years of his life in homes for the elderly. Reasons for choosing this path are many, but the most important is the lack of support and the need for personal care companions. These two...