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Governance & Sustainability: Does Democracy Beggar Thy Future?, Nathanael D. Peach
Governance & Sustainability: Does Democracy Beggar Thy Future?, Nathanael D. Peach
Faculty Publications - College of Business
Findings:
An increase in political stability:
- Higher levels of natural resource depletion
- Higher levels of adjusted net savings (ANS) i.e. contributes positively to sustainable growth
Increase in democracy:
- Lower levels of natural resource depletion
- Impact on sustainability is conditional on the economic and political context
Efficiency Of The Welfare State: A Comparative Approach Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Jekabs Bikis
Efficiency Of The Welfare State: A Comparative Approach Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Jekabs Bikis
Faculty Publications - College of Business
As governments continue to evolve over the past century or so in their perceived role of providing economic security for their populations, a ubiquitous yet ill-defined concept of the welfare state is increasingly taking center stage in political and economic debates. With fiscal crises looming over the horizon in many parts of the world, the fingers of blame point with greater frequency to the welfare state as the entity which is contributing more to fiscal problems than to economic solutions. Reformation of the welfare state is rapidly becoming more likely and more urgent and this study proposes one mechanism for …