Introduction Local governments are increasingly faced with making decisions that were once delegated to the Federal government. However, with this devolution of power, local governments often lack the resources or information to make effective decisions that impact their communities. To further exacerbate this issue, rural communities in the United States are typically resource-poor compared to...

nomadic communities have always played a crucial role in meat production by developing creative and sustainable system in utilizing the scarce natural resources. during the last decade, fars’ nomads have been experiencing changes due to external pressures such as drought that have altered the social, political and economic landscapes and have also been the cause of decline in the health of rang...

This research aims at identifying antecedents of e-government success from stake holders’ perspective by focusing mainly on government-government relations, government-citizen relations and citizens-citizen relations. Although, the various government agencies, businesses, citizens, visitors, technology solution providers and businesses that support government procurement are among major stakeho...

one of the unique characteristic of agricultural agreement is to order the countries to accept the commitments in three different areas such as domestic support, market access and export subsidy. although the main goal of this type of classification is the reduction of distortion interventions of trade, but indicates that the agricultural agreement has special attention to political tools again...

s Abstract for Literature Review The current degree of economic inequality in the US is the largest it has been since prior to the Great Depression and growing. Economic inequality is linked to mortality, social capital, interpersonal trust, and democratic participation, beyond the effects of poverty. Two main constructs are reviewed as predictors of support for efforts to reduce inequality: 1)...

This paper describes some aspects of the e-Government, mainly from the knowledge management perspective. Most oft he work related with this talk is being done within the IST Project Webocracy1, which is coordinated by Technical University of Kosice. The designed Webocrat system applies a knowledge-based approach [3]. Information of all kinds produced by various Webocrat modules is linked to a s...

Support for interpersonal cooperation in large, geographically distributed organizations is one of the great challenges for the infomation and communications technologies of the future. Cooperation problems are similar everywhere: in large economic enterprises; amongst the governments of the European states; and in the German federal and state governments, whose ministries are distributed geogr...

Greatly expanding its commitment to cancer research and treatment, the government of Puerto Rico recently earmarked $40 million over the next 5 years for its cancer research infrastructure and another $75 million to build a new cancer research hospital. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is in the process of approving the funding for what will be the Caribbean’s first comprehensive cancer center, ...