It is disappointing to note that pathetic Slum settlements meet the housing needs of a substantial urban population in large metro cities in countries like India. They have grown beyond management due to widespread poverty, rising prices of accommodation and inadequate housing bank loan and land...

The author assets that the poverty removal should be the first priority for every policy maker. Taking examples from India, the author mentions SHG and women empowerment as tools for poverty removal. The author also mentions about financial inclusion and other initiatives. The author assets that...

The authors discuss the meaning, need and importance of diversity and discusses a case study about impact of diversity. The authors recommend policies for promotion of diversity in organizations. The authors mention a few areas where organizations must promote suitable policies to foster...

This work investigates the causal effect of broadband coverage on turnout in Mexico using an instrumental variable strategy within a difference-in-differences framework. This methodology exploits the variation of broadband coverage expansion across regions and exogenous variation in lightning...

Aim/purpose - The purpose of this article was to identify the information and communication technology (ICT) tools fostering the co-production of social services, acknowledging that the technological environment is an important contextual condition enhancing the development of co-production....

As governments work to transform their environments from an internal resource optimization to a process integration and external collaboration focus, integrated systems stand at the forefront of solutions that will achieve this goal. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is proven to significantly...

The paper outlines the role of e-government as the main action in order to reform Romanian public services. E-government is a critical constituent of the new information and knowledge-based society and in the last few years had an exponential evolution at the European Unions’ level. The...