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Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security: An Analysis of the USDA GPRA Food Security Indicator
Nord, Mark - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007
prevalence rate as one of its strategic planning goals established under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039215
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A Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Report: The Status of the Medicaid Infrastructure Grants Program as of 12/31/07.
Gruman, Cindy; Croake, Sarah; Schimmel, Jody; Liu, Su - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008
The Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) program provides funding to states to develop the necessary infrastructure to promote competitive employment for people with disabilities. Grantee states use MIG funding to support a range of activities, including developing and implementing a Medicaid...
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Requiring Bureaucracies to Perform: What Have We Learned From the U.S. Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA)?
Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - 1998
The U.S. Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) was enacted to promote strategic planning and performance … performance-based management and politics from a theoretical perspective. GPRA is unusual among American administrative reforms in … executive agency planning. Results to date suggest that the processes and reports required by GPRA have not yet become essential …
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Performance measurement and change: the case of Italian new public administration
Arnaboldi, Michela; Azzone, Giovanni - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 7 (2005) 1, pp. 1-15
This is a study of Management Control Systems (MCS) in the Italian public sector in the context of a significant change that is shifting these organisations from a bureaucratic toward a performance-oriented model. The paper aims to present a theoretical framework for developing an overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010816665
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Neural networks and revenue forecasting: a smarter forecast?
Voorhees, William R. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 1 (2006) 4, pp. 379-388
The use of neural networks has been slow in coming to the public sector. One promising area in which neural networks are likely to prove beneficial is in the area of revenue forecasting. A sales tax forecasting model is developed and compared to the actual collections for the State of Indiana....
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Neural networks and revenue forecasting: a smarter forecast?
Voorhees, William R. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 1 (2006) 4, pp. 379-388
The use of neural networks has been slow in coming to the public sector. One promising area in which neural networks are likely to prove beneficial is in the area of revenue forecasting. A sales tax forecasting model is developed and compared to the actual collections for the State of Indiana....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564010
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On the causal relationship between trade-openness and government-size: evidence from OECD countries
Molana, Hassan; Montagna, Catia; Violato, Mara - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 4/5/6, pp. 226-249
The compensation hypothesis predicts a positive causation from international economic openness to the size of the public sector, as governments step in to perform a risk mitigating role to counterbalance the increasing exposure to external risk and the economic dislocations caused by growing...
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Introducing performance management in the system of public administration in Russia: approaches and lessons learnt from the last decade of implementation
Gusarova, Maya; Ovchinnikova, Maria - In: Public administration issues (2014) 1, pp. 98-126
This article attempts to take stock of the first stage of the performance management reforms in Russia (2004-2013), identify the lessons learned both from domestic and international experience and assess prospects for further development of the performance management principles and tools going...
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Implementation of the performance management as a part of administrative reform in Russia: towards the creation of a new model of public administration
Dobrolyubova, E.; Yuzhakov, V.; Alexandrov, O. - In: Public administration issues (2014) 2, pp. 28-47
Introducing performance management principles was acknowledged as one of the directions of the administrative reform in the Russian Federation according to the Concept of administrative reform in the Russian Federation in 2006-2010 approved in 2005 and extended in 2008.The article reviews the...
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РЕГЛАМЕНТНЫЕ ФОРМЫ ПУБЛИЧНОГО АДМИНИСТРИРОВАНИЯ ВЫСШЕГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ В РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ
АЛЕКСАНДРОВИЧ, ПОВНЫЙ ДМИТРИЙ - In: Бизнес в законе. … (2009) 3, pp. 163-166
В статье рассмотрены вопросы нормативного закрепления административных процедур в области управления высшим профессиональным образованием. Проанализировано...
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