Governmental support for Satoumi-action

The Role of Social Capital in Citizen Support for Governmental Action to Reduce Economic Inequality

This article suggests that an important source of political conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean is the disagreement among the citizenry on the role of government in reducing economic inequality, particularly between the very rich and the poor. While the poor clamor for vigorous public policies to reduce economic inequality, the rich show significantly lower support. The findings of this...

The Case for Governmental Action to Retard Condominium Conversion Activity

Community models of mental care warrant more governmental support.

rehabilitation model are relatively new initiatives. It could be argued that all these models use the least possible healthcare resources. With fewer resources the community may be empowered to take on more responsibilities for ill people. Some may see this as a positive development, but others may see such initiatives as a way of transferring state responsibilities to the population. If there ...

Generic Action Support for Distributed, Cooperative Applications

Elements of transaction processing become more and more accepted as a base for general purpose distributed computing.We have developed an action concept with an extended functionality suited to better support the needs of future important application fields such as Cooperative Work and Concurrent Engineering. Its main characteristic is its orthogonal design of recovery mechanisms allowing to ap...

Non-governmental organizational health operations in humanitarian crises: the case for technical support units.

As the humanitarian health response industry grows, there is a need for technical health expertise that can build an evidence base around outcome measures and raise the quality and accountability of the health relief response. We propose the formation of technical support units (TSUs), entities of health expertise institutionalized within humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs), whic...