There has been a lot of noise about the millennium bug, but little hard data. Many organisations have spent a fortune on the problem but refuse to share their findings. Governments tell their citizens not to panic while making panicky contingency plans in private. Few of the ‘experts’ in the field are willing to predict the outcome. Here I report the results of an examination of the systems use...

Introduction Choosing a starting point and an end for a historiography of the civil procedural laws of twentieth century Europe from the perspective of case management is as simple as choosing these moments in the Europe of the nineteenth century. In the nineteenth century the historiography should commence with the French Code de procédure civile, that was adopted in 1806. It was this code, wi...

Oregon's work on teen pregnancy prevention during the previous 20 years has shifted from a risk-focused paradigm to a youth development model that places young people at the center of their sexual health and well-being. During 2005, the Oregon Governor's Office requested that an ad hoc committee of state agency and private partners develop recommendations for the next phase of teen pregnancy pr...

The critical challenge of development for Africa in the 21 century is an issue around which there is considerable consensus. There is, however, little consensus on the nature of the crisis, the required development framework and trajectory or the ‘desired state’. In the context of the debate, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) has been promoted by its authors and sponsors as A...

This study designed to give us a better understanding of the experiences and mechanism of the Government intervention in tourism industry development in Iran. This study is mainly focused on the government relations With local community According to their acceptance or disagreement with tourism development project in their region. Having used Phenomenology Strategy in order to understand the ex...

the present article tries to prove that there is a reverse relation between the role of state in political society and its liability. in other words, the greater state’s interference with the political society, the less will be its responsibility and hence its liability. on contrary, making limitation to the state’s role in political society will increase its responsibility and thus its liabili...

This article, prepared by the counsel fo r the New York State Depar tment of Civil Service gives the complete up-to-date picture of rights of veterans under the State Military Law. It covers both the man or woman who lef t a Civil Service job and the veteran who wants to enter civil service for his post-war career. While prepared specially for State employees, almost all of the facts given here...

Introduction: Medical tourism is the travel of patients to outside the area of life to benefit from hospitals and medical services or some particular treatment or periodic test of physical conditions. This study has been done with the purpose of formulating a strategic plan of medical tourism development of Ahwaz city. Methods: The method of this research...

Please ogies in Summary. — This paper examines public–private partnerships (PPPs) for development through the example of telecenters in two Indian states. How might a developmental state position itself with respect to civil society under a PPP model of service delivery? We find that each state’s political economy is reflected in its PPP strategy, but that in both states the emerging middle cla...