We estimate the impact of a large anti-poverty program – the Uruguayan PANES – on political support for the government that implemented it. The program mainly consisted of a monthly cash transfer for a period of roughly two and half years. Using the discontinuity in program assignment based on a pre-treatment score, we find that beneficiary households are 21 to 28 percentage points more likely ...

There are various frameworks for decision support system (DSS) that have been formulated. Such frameworks describe the characteristics of DSS. In this paper a proposed effectiveness DSS framework for e-government is presented. This is done by integrating DSS components to support managers and decision makers in e-government. The structure of the proposed DSS framework is discussed. It is expect...

In this paper, we examine Black churches located in economically challenged neighborhoods in a northeastern US city. Employing the concepts of the organizational divide and Heek’s designactuality model, we conducted interviews with clergy at seven black churches to understand their level of ICT use and capacity to secure funding from the White House Office of Community and Faith-Based Initiativ...

Recourse to a purported ideal of societal homogeneity has become common in the context of the refugee reception crisis – not only in Japan, as Leppold et al report, but also throughout Europe. Calls for societal homogeneity in Europe originate from populist movements as well as from some governments. Often, they go along with reduced social support for refugees and asylum seekers, for example i...

abstract main objective of this paper is the investigation the effect of support policies of government on income risk of poultry producers in iran for the 1989-2006. ccv index was used to investigate amount of variation that cause each support policies (market price support, support of agricultural inputs, outputs insurance) on income risk variation of producers. the results of this study show...

Many companies have been and are implementing diversification to take advantage of capital, reduce risks, increase revenue for enterprises. At the same time, government support is considered positive implications companies. This study was conducted assess impact on firm performance small medium enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam. Data collected 1,342 SMEs Vietnam from 2011 2015. The analysis results...

the main purpose of the study is to examine the causal relationship between government revenues and expenditures of the jordan government over the period from 1990 to 2011 using granger causality and vecm tests methodology. which provides channels of causation between government revenues (gr) and government expenditures (ge).the empirical results show that bidirectional causality running betwee...

In this paper, we propose a new system aiming to support government agency decision makers to design new services tailored to citizen profiles in a complex and distributed egovernment scenario. Specifically, our system assists government agency managers, who plan to activate new services, to identify those citizens who could gain the highest benefit from each of them. Managers can, then, exploi...