The aim of our paper is to determine the conditions under which firms tend to offer the best nutritional quality of food products, and the public regulation required to obtain this in a context where diet and nutritional status plays an important part in maintaining health and preventing...

This article focuses on one of the most important principles of government centralization and decentralization. This principle is reflected in the organization and functioning of political, territorial and resource characteristics of the state. The analysis of the trends and criteria for the...

Small towns in Russia are a very special structure of state and public life organizationally, legally, socially and culturally. They have their own specific mode of economy and plans for development. As practice shows, small towns in Russia have a lot of unsolved problems. Analysis of the...

The purpose of the present research is to study and generalize practice of the public financial control (PFC) in countries with more developed economies. The study presented is empirical. Its information base is: analytical materials of the higher public audit institutions of developed...

This article gives an analysis of the processes of public participation in the formulation of strategies in various state systems. A key focus will be given to the comparison of several countries to assess their positions on: a) the composition of actors involved in the formulation of...

The regulatory impact assessment is considered as an instrument for grounding the states optimal presence in economy and for checking the presence of any administrative barriers. The RIA was developed in response to the growing value and complexity of the state regulation. Demand for RIA as a...

In the face of the changes in the planet's natural resources and of their unequal distribution, it is becoming more urgent that contemporary societies oversee environmental assets in a global manner. Although international directives, when they are transposed into national laws, may set specific...

Economically and socially speaking, water governance in developing countries is a major issue identified as a priority on the international agenda. This article is divided in three steps. First, we characterise the governance of water resources, by stressing the hybrid nature of the regulation...

Offshoring and offshore outsourcing is increasingly affecting the EU-15, both in the manufacturing and services sectors. While no official statistics exist for the scope of the phenomenon, industry experts and press surveys point to a relatively limited extent of perhaps up to 2 percent of the...

With the goal of reducing the dependency on oil revenues, the Government of Kazakhstan has recently increased its budget allocations to prop up the domestic agricultural sector. Yet, many observers agree that it is less the amount of public spending that induces long-term growth than the quality...