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The government is to pump over £1bn into overhauling children's mental health services by 2020, but experts say this alone will not be enough to tackle deep-rooted problems with access to therapy and the commissioning system

"Serial no. 110-101." ; Shipping list no.: 2009-0214-P. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Serial no. 110-105." ; Shipping list no.: 2009-0214-P. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This paper tries to show the position of the public library as one of the local devices in developing e-government in Indonesia. It is described about the egovernment and how important is the integral understanding to a variety of the government elements in supporting the development. The description is based on the understanding of the Indonesian government model with its current local autonomy which give the local government a huge power to execute the government functions. The library is directed as the information dissemination elements and the coomunication device between the local goverment and thesociety.

The Taiwanese Patent Act foresaw from its inception in 1944 compulsory licence (CL) and government use. The provisions on the former have been amended several times, moving away from the Paris Convention model, while provisions on the latter were revised once, only to narrow its scope. Overall speaking, the regime on compulsory licensing and government use is in regress and fails to fulfil its function of balancing public and private interests. Thus far in Taiwan, two CL have been granted and implemented with the second being annulled later, and only one government use has been granted and yet not implemented due to its precondition not being satisfied. The Fair Trade Commission has not yet seen CL as one of the "necessary corrective measures" of the Fair Trade Act, although it did find violation of the Fair Trade Act in the Philips CD-R case.

Renewed interest in fiscal policy has increased the use of quantitative models to evaluate policy. Because of modeling uncertainty, it is essential that policy evaluations be robust to alternative assumptions. We find that models currently being used in practice to evaluate fiscal policy stimulus proposals are not robust. Government spending multipliers in an alternative empirically-estimated and widely-cited new Keynesian model are much smaller than in these old Keynesian models; the estimated stimulus is extremely small with GDP and employment effects only one-sixth as large.

What is the role of government in the digital economy? It is not our intention to go into an in-depth ideological debate on whether governments should intervene in the business sector. We will try to adopt a pragmatic approach and explore what already happens in practice. It is up to the reader to make a judgment to what extent the governments should be involved in the ICT sector. There is enough indication that, due to network externality effects, governments need to take on an active role in stimulating an e-environment to jump-start the move toward a higher level of e-readiness.In this chapter, we will argue that the government can play an important role in at least four areas: stimulating the enhancement of the infrastructure that enables e-Europe; investing in improved services (e-government); stimulating an e-friendly business environment; and creating an all-inclusive information society. For each of these areas we will provide in-sights into how the government can play an effective role.

"This paper investigates the relative performance of enterprises backed by government-sponsored venture capitalists and private venture capitalists. While previous studies focus mainly on investor returns, this paper focuses on a broader set of public policy objectives, including value-creation, innovation, and competition. A number of novel data-collection methods, including web-crawlers, are used to assemble a near-comprehensive data set of Canadian venture-capital backed enterprises. The results indicate that enterprises financed by government-sponsored venture capitalists underperform on a variety of criteria, including value-creation, as measured by the likelihood and size of IPOs and M&As, and innovation, as measured by patents. It is important to understand whether such underperformance arises from a selection effect in which private venture capitalists have a higher quality threshold for investment than subsidized venture capitalists, or whether it arises from a treatment effect in which subsidized venture capitalists crowd out private investment and, in addition, provide less effective mentoring and other value-added skills. We find suggestive evidence that crowding out and less effective treatment are problems associated with government-backed venture capital. While the data does not allow for a definitive welfare analysis, the results cast some doubt on the desirability of certain government interventions in the venture capital market"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

There is growing scholarly interest in how community and labor groups are fashioning new legal frameworks outside of traditional labor law to facilitate worker organizing and enhance workplace standards. This Article focuses on an important and under-studied dimension of this movement: the use of local government law as a tool to restructure low-wage markets and improve the economic status of the working poor. To better understand the role of local government law in contemporary labor activism, we look closely at nine low-wage worker initiatives launched in Los Angeles between 1997 and 2008. We describe the genesis and features of these initiatives and examine how they relate to—and extend—traditional local government contracting, land use, and regulatory powers. We then step back from the details of the policies to identify general patterns that may be helpful in guiding scholars and activists interested in the potential of local government law as a lever of low-wage market reform. Specifically, we examine the type of organizational alliances that have promoted the initiatives, map the industry sectors targeted for local regulation, define a range of policy objectives, articulate how the initiatives are framed to policy makers, suggest basic criteria to assess policy impact, and explore the central challenge of replication.

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Item 1016-A, 1016-B (microfiche). ; Hearings held Sept. 9, 1981- ; Mode of access: Internet.

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