This paper is about exploring mobile e-Government issues by analysing their historical evolution and illustrating some concrete activities, first in the initial phase, then through more recent projects, with the idea of capturing some attributes of its development trend. The objective is to propose a view on m-Government, which can be both compatible with fieldwork findings and overall informat...

1 ©Meir Kohn 2014 10. PREDATION AND GOVERNMENT AS ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES In Sections 1 and 2, we developed the first strand of our theory of economic progress—an explanation of how commerce promotes production and how the two interact in a self-perpetuating process of expanding markets and increasing productivity. In Section 3, we turn to the second strand of our theory—an explanation of how preda...

The aim of this study is to examine the nonlinear effects of fiscal and monetary policies on inflation during 1990:3 to 2013:1 based on threshold model. First lag of the liquidity growth is recognized as threshold variable with threshold value estimated at 6.37 percent. In low liquidity growth, the results indicate that inflation expectations and the lagged liquidity growth are the most importa...

n 1998, the federal government of the United States reached a budget surplus for the first time in 30 years. Even though many commentators have described this event as a rare and major success, what is remarkable is not that the U.S. government has reached a surplus, but that this result is perceived as so "exceptional." In fact, given the strong expansion of the U.S. economy in the last eight ...

Comparing rates of legislative productivity in periods of unified and divided control of the executive and legislative branches in the US and France, we show first that the concept of ―divided government‖ is more complicated than scholars have allowed. In the US, truly unified government, where the president enjoys a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate as well as a majority in the House, is...