Across the developing world, many governments have implemented political reforms—heavily promoted by international donors—designed to transfer greater power to subnational levels of government and to provide a more substantial policymaking and oversight role to citizens. Although economic analyses have frequently argued that such decentralization programs improve the efficiency of public expend...

Previous research indicates that there is a failure in the adoption of e-government services to citizens as planned in the context of developing countries. Obstacles behind this failure are varied, including sociocultural, economic and technical obstacles. But with recent advances in mobile technologies as well as the pervasive penetration of mobile phones, governments in developing countries i...

The extent to which federal investment in research crowds out or decreases incentives for investment from other funding sources remains an open question. Scholarship on research funding has focused on the relationship between federal and industry or, more comprehensively, non-federal funding without disentangling the other sources of research support that include nonprofit organizations and sta...

Government support plays an important role in Chinese economy. New energy industries, concerning innovation-driven source and environmental protection, are also supported by government. This paper aims to study the effects of the traditional government support at supply side on firms’ innovation and development. In this paper, we propose enterprise behavior model including characteristics of ne...

Purpose: Considering the importance of human resources in electronic government and emphasis on administrative health, the aim of this study was to designing the pattern of human resources development of electronic government with an administrative health approach. Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative and qu...

Wheat is one of the most strategic agricultural products, which has always been a significant issue for the government. The main purpose of this study is to review the policy of purchasing wheat on the welfare of producers and customers in Iran. Due to the significance of wheat in consuming model of Iranian families, this product has been permanently under consideration. The government grants a...