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Taking into account the complicated situation of social indicators in Lithuania, the master's final project carries out the analysis of the process of implementation of monetary social support through the case of Jurbarkas district municipality. Growing consumer goods prices, insufficient living income, high income differentiation and the associated poverty growth, aging society and decline in unemployment not all over Lithuania make up the need to ensure proper coordination of the monetary social support mechanism. Namely, the provision of monetary social support in the form of a certain social allowance or compensation is intended to facilitate the living conditions of those persons who, because of the problems mentioned, cannot satisfy their essential physiological needs. Today, monetary social support is already granted to 122 thousand people of the country, and the relevance of this problem is further confirmed by the fact that this number has grown by almost 27 thousand this year. Since 1 January 2015 all 60 municipalities provide monetary social support by performing an autonomous function of municipalities. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the analysis of cases of specific municipalities. In this case, Jurbarkas district municipality is chosen not by chance - according to the percentage of total number of recipients of monetary social support from the total number of inhabitants of the district, Jurbarkas district falls among those municipalities where monetary social support is granted to the largest number of persons (every tenth of the district's inhabitant). Therefore, the research work was carried out by choosing a relatively small Jurbarkas district municipality, which has not yet been fully investigated on this issue, in order to identify the system for the implementation of monetary social support and to provide recommendations for improvement of this area. So, the subject in this case becomes a new empirical point of view. The aim of the project is to carry out the complex analysis of the implementation of the system of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality. To achieve the goal, three main tasks have been formed: to identify theoretical aspects of monetary social support; to analyze the legal acts regulating the provision of monetary social support and institutional structure; to carry out the analysis of the provision of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality and to identify practical problems of implementation of this support. The first part reveals the conceptualization of social protection, its relation to social policy, analyzes social support and the basic principles of the support coordination mechanism, identifies the main features of the monetary social support system. The second part of the project deals with the legal framework governing monetary social support and provides the institutional framework for monetary social support. The third part presents the research methodology and research methods, the analysis of qualitative (semi-structured interview) and quantitative data (questionnaire survey), which includes the implementation of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality. Research results have shown that in order to ensure proper and effective implementation of monetary social support in Jurbarkas District Municipality, it is necessary to initiate the necessity to change the legislation regulating this area, to seek closer cooperation of institutions coordinating monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality with the national level institutions and other territorially operating institutions, as well as to involve local communities more actively in the process of considering and allocating support, and to pay more attention to ensuring better quality of services in the process of administration of monetary social support. In addition, the change in the amount of state-sponsored income makes it appropriate to re-analyze the district budget when assessing the potential of the district to provide a guarantee that social support will reach all those to whom it belongs. The results of the research also revealed that it is necessary to integrate the model of services provided by the municipal and territorial labor exchange into the process of implementation of social support and to ensure the application of the methodology based on the principle of economy.

Taking into account the complicated situation of social indicators in Lithuania, the master's final project carries out the analysis of the process of implementation of monetary social support through the case of Jurbarkas district municipality. Growing consumer goods prices, insufficient living income, high income differentiation and the associated poverty growth, aging society and decline in unemployment not all over Lithuania make up the need to ensure proper coordination of the monetary social support mechanism. Namely, the provision of monetary social support in the form of a certain social allowance or compensation is intended to facilitate the living conditions of those persons who, because of the problems mentioned, cannot satisfy their essential physiological needs. Today, monetary social support is already granted to 122 thousand people of the country, and the relevance of this problem is further confirmed by the fact that this number has grown by almost 27 thousand this year. Since 1 January 2015 all 60 municipalities provide monetary social support by performing an autonomous function of municipalities. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the analysis of cases of specific municipalities. In this case, Jurbarkas district municipality is chosen not by chance - according to the percentage of total number of recipients of monetary social support from the total number of inhabitants of the district, Jurbarkas district falls among those municipalities where monetary social support is granted to the largest number of persons (every tenth of the district's inhabitant). Therefore, the research work was carried out by choosing a relatively small Jurbarkas district municipality, which has not yet been fully investigated on this issue, in order to identify the system for the implementation of monetary social support and to provide recommendations for improvement of this area. So, the subject in this case becomes a new empirical point of view. The aim of the project is to carry out the complex analysis of the implementation of the system of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality. To achieve the goal, three main tasks have been formed: to identify theoretical aspects of monetary social support; to analyze the legal acts regulating the provision of monetary social support and institutional structure; to carry out the analysis of the provision of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality and to identify practical problems of implementation of this support. The first part reveals the conceptualization of social protection, its relation to social policy, analyzes social support and the basic principles of the support coordination mechanism, identifies the main features of the monetary social support system. The second part of the project deals with the legal framework governing monetary social support and provides the institutional framework for monetary social support. The third part presents the research methodology and research methods, the analysis of qualitative (semi-structured interview) and quantitative data (questionnaire survey), which includes the implementation of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality. Research results have shown that in order to ensure proper and effective implementation of monetary social support in Jurbarkas District Municipality, it is necessary to initiate the necessity to change the legislation regulating this area, to seek closer cooperation of institutions coordinating monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality with the national level institutions and other territorially operating institutions, as well as to involve local communities more actively in the process of considering and allocating support, and to pay more attention to ensuring better quality of services in the process of administration of monetary social support. In addition, the change in the amount of state-sponsored income makes it appropriate to re-analyze the district budget when assessing the potential of the district to provide a guarantee that social support will reach all those to whom it belongs. The results of the research also revealed that it is necessary to integrate the model of services provided by the municipal and territorial labor exchange into the process of implementation of social support and to ensure the application of the methodology based on the principle of economy.

Taking into account the complicated situation of social indicators in Lithuania, the master's final project carries out the analysis of the process of implementation of monetary social support through the case of Jurbarkas district municipality. Growing consumer goods prices, insufficient living income, high income differentiation and the associated poverty growth, aging society and decline in unemployment not all over Lithuania make up the need to ensure proper coordination of the monetary social support mechanism. Namely, the provision of monetary social support in the form of a certain social allowance or compensation is intended to facilitate the living conditions of those persons who, because of the problems mentioned, cannot satisfy their essential physiological needs. Today, monetary social support is already granted to 122 thousand people of the country, and the relevance of this problem is further confirmed by the fact that this number has grown by almost 27 thousand this year. Since 1 January 2015 all 60 municipalities provide monetary social support by performing an autonomous function of municipalities. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the analysis of cases of specific municipalities. In this case, Jurbarkas district municipality is chosen not by chance - according to the percentage of total number of recipients of monetary social support from the total number of inhabitants of the district, Jurbarkas district falls among those municipalities where monetary social support is granted to the largest number of persons (every tenth of the district's inhabitant). Therefore, the research work was carried out by choosing a relatively small Jurbarkas district municipality, which has not yet been fully investigated on this issue, in order to identify the system for the implementation of monetary social support and to provide recommendations for improvement of this area. So, the subject in this case becomes a new empirical point of view. The aim of the project is to carry out the complex analysis of the implementation of the system of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality. To achieve the goal, three main tasks have been formed: to identify theoretical aspects of monetary social support; to analyze the legal acts regulating the provision of monetary social support and institutional structure; to carry out the analysis of the provision of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality and to identify practical problems of implementation of this support. The first part reveals the conceptualization of social protection, its relation to social policy, analyzes social support and the basic principles of the support coordination mechanism, identifies the main features of the monetary social support system. The second part of the project deals with the legal framework governing monetary social support and provides the institutional framework for monetary social support. The third part presents the research methodology and research methods, the analysis of qualitative (semi-structured interview) and quantitative data (questionnaire survey), which includes the implementation of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality. Research results have shown that in order to ensure proper and effective implementation of monetary social support in Jurbarkas District Municipality, it is necessary to initiate the necessity to change the legislation regulating this area, to seek closer cooperation of institutions coordinating monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality with the national level institutions and other territorially operating institutions, as well as to involve local communities more actively in the process of considering and allocating support, and to pay more attention to ensuring better quality of services in the process of administration of monetary social support. In addition, the change in the amount of state-sponsored income makes it appropriate to re-analyze the district budget when assessing the potential of the district to provide a guarantee that social support will reach all those to whom it belongs. The results of the research also revealed that it is necessary to integrate the model of services provided by the municipal and territorial labor exchange into the process of implementation of social support and to ensure the application of the methodology based on the principle of economy.

Taking into account the complicated situation of social indicators in Lithuania, the master's final project carries out the analysis of the process of implementation of monetary social support through the case of Jurbarkas district municipality. Growing consumer goods prices, insufficient living income, high income differentiation and the associated poverty growth, aging society and decline in unemployment not all over Lithuania make up the need to ensure proper coordination of the monetary social support mechanism. Namely, the provision of monetary social support in the form of a certain social allowance or compensation is intended to facilitate the living conditions of those persons who, because of the problems mentioned, cannot satisfy their essential physiological needs. Today, monetary social support is already granted to 122 thousand people of the country, and the relevance of this problem is further confirmed by the fact that this number has grown by almost 27 thousand this year. Since 1 January 2015 all 60 municipalities provide monetary social support by performing an autonomous function of municipalities. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the analysis of cases of specific municipalities. In this case, Jurbarkas district municipality is chosen not by chance - according to the percentage of total number of recipients of monetary social support from the total number of inhabitants of the district, Jurbarkas district falls among those municipalities where monetary social support is granted to the largest number of persons (every tenth of the district's inhabitant). Therefore, the research work was carried out by choosing a relatively small Jurbarkas district municipality, which has not yet been fully investigated on this issue, in order to identify the system for the implementation of monetary social support and to provide recommendations for improvement of this area. So, the subject in this case becomes a new empirical point of view. The aim of the project is to carry out the complex analysis of the implementation of the system of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality. To achieve the goal, three main tasks have been formed: to identify theoretical aspects of monetary social support; to analyze the legal acts regulating the provision of monetary social support and institutional structure; to carry out the analysis of the provision of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality and to identify practical problems of implementation of this support. The first part reveals the conceptualization of social protection, its relation to social policy, analyzes social support and the basic principles of the support coordination mechanism, identifies the main features of the monetary social support system. The second part of the project deals with the legal framework governing monetary social support and provides the institutional framework for monetary social support. The third part presents the research methodology and research methods, the analysis of qualitative (semi-structured interview) and quantitative data (questionnaire survey), which includes the implementation of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality. Research results have shown that in order to ensure proper and effective implementation of monetary social support in Jurbarkas District Municipality, it is necessary to initiate the necessity to change the legislation regulating this area, to seek closer cooperation of institutions coordinating monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality with the national level institutions and other territorially operating institutions, as well as to involve local communities more actively in the process of considering and allocating support, and to pay more attention to ensuring better quality of services in the process of administration of monetary social support. In addition, the change in the amount of state-sponsored income makes it appropriate to re-analyze the district budget when assessing the potential of the district to provide a guarantee that social support will reach all those to whom it belongs. The results of the research also revealed that it is necessary to integrate the model of services provided by the municipal and territorial labor exchange into the process of implementation of social support and to ensure the application of the methodology based on the principle of economy.

In today's world, growing cultural integration has a direct impact on the development of tourism, which is important from the economic as well as the social, political or ecological perspective. Given the rapid expansion of tourism on the global market and the ever-increasing competitiveness of the tourism sector, it is important to assess the state of the tourism sector in Lithuania and determine the potential for its development. The results of the qualitative research have demonstrated that the policy options that could allow for the smooth development of Lithuanian tourism have eluded clear identification owing to the less than appropriate regulation of this area and the absence of effective tourism management. It has been discovered that the legal framework so far remains underdeveloped. In addition, when it comes to tourism policy management, the relevant functions tend to not be performed properly. Moreover, there is a lack of cooperation among the institutions responsible for tourism coordination or otherwise indirectly connected to the area, whereas cooperation between the local and the national level is minimal. This shows that a number of areas may require improvement in order for the country's tourism development policy to become more effective. However, if the country manages to perform a targeted elimination of the problematic areas and makes proper use of its strengths and existing potential in the tourism sector, such as the favorable geographical location, a well-developed sector of tourism-related services, rich recreational resources, or an attractive ratio between the quality and price of tourism products, the effective development of tourism in Lithuania will become possible in the long term.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.16.3.19341
An erratum to this article is available at:
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.16.3.24730

In today's world, growing cultural integration has a direct impact on the development of tourism, which is important from the economic as well as the social, political or ecological perspective. Given the rapid expansion of tourism on the global market and the ever-increasing competitiveness of the tourism sector, it is important to assess the state of the tourism sector in Lithuania and determine the potential for its development. The results of the qualitative research have demonstrated that the policy options that could allow for the smooth development of Lithuanian tourism have eluded clear identification owing to the less than appropriate regulation of this area and the absence of effective tourism management. It has been discovered that the legal framework so far remains underdeveloped. In addition, when it comes to tourism policy management, the relevant functions tend to not be performed properly. Moreover, there is a lack of cooperation among the institutions responsible for tourism coordination or otherwise indirectly connected to the area, whereas cooperation between the local and the national level is minimal. This shows that a number of areas may require improvement in order for the country's tourism development policy to become more effective. However, if the country manages to perform a targeted elimination of the problematic areas and makes proper use of its strengths and existing potential in the tourism sector, such as the favorable geographical location, a well-developed sector of tourism-related services, rich recreational resources, or an attractive ratio between the quality and price of tourism products, the effective development of tourism in Lithuania will become possible in the long term.

In today's world, growing cultural integration has a direct impact on the development of tourism, which is important from the economic as well as the social, political or ecological perspective. Given the rapid expansion of tourism on the global market and the ever-increasing competitiveness of the tourism sector, it is important to assess the state of the tourism sector in Lithuania and determine the potential for its development. The results of the qualitative research have demonstrated that the policy options that could allow for the smooth development of Lithuanian tourism have eluded clear identification owing to the less than appropriate regulation of this area and the absence of effective tourism management. It has been discovered that the legal framework so far remains underdeveloped. In addition, when it comes to tourism policy management, the relevant functions tend to not be performed properly. Moreover, there is a lack of cooperation among the institutions responsible for tourism coordination or otherwise indirectly connected to the area, whereas cooperation between the local and the national level is minimal. This shows that a number of areas may require improvement in order for the country's tourism development policy to become more effective. However, if the country manages to perform a targeted elimination of the problematic areas and makes proper use of its strengths and existing potential in the tourism sector, such as the favorable geographical location, a well-developed sector of tourism-related services, rich recreational resources, or an attractive ratio between the quality and price of tourism products, the effective development of tourism in Lithuania will become possible in the long term.

In today's world, growing cultural integration has a direct impact on the development of tourism, which is important from the economic as well as the social, political or ecological perspective. Given the rapid expansion of tourism on the global market and the ever-increasing competitiveness of the tourism sector, it is important to assess the state of the tourism sector in Lithuania and determine the potential for its development. The results of the qualitative research have demonstrated that the policy options that could allow for the smooth development of Lithuanian tourism have eluded clear identification owing to the less than appropriate regulation of this area and the absence of effective tourism management. It has been discovered that the legal framework so far remains underdeveloped. In addition, when it comes to tourism policy management, the relevant functions tend to not be performed properly. Moreover, there is a lack of cooperation among the institutions responsible for tourism coordination or otherwise indirectly connected to the area, whereas cooperation between the local and the national level is minimal. This shows that a number of areas may require improvement in order for the country's tourism development policy to become more effective. However, if the country manages to perform a targeted elimination of the problematic areas and makes proper use of its strengths and existing potential in the tourism sector, such as the favorable geographical location, a well-developed sector of tourism-related services, rich recreational resources, or an attractive ratio between the quality and price of tourism products, the effective development of tourism in Lithuania will become possible in the long term. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.16.3.19341 An erratum to this article is available at: http://vpa.ktu.lt/index.php/PPA/article/view/24730 ; Šiomis dienomis turizmo plėtra tampa reikšminga ekonomine sritimi visame pasaulyje, todėl dėmesys turizmo plėtros politikos analizei yra neišvengiamas. ...

In today's world, growing cultural integration has a direct impact on the development of tourism, which is important from the economic as well as the social, political or ecological perspective. Given the rapid expansion of tourism on the global market and the ever-increasing competitiveness of the tourism sector, it is important to assess the state of the tourism sector in Lithuania and determine the potential for its development. The results of the qualitative research have demonstrated that the policy options that could allow for the smooth development of Lithuanian tourism have eluded clear identification owing to the less than appropriate regulation of this area and the absence of effective tourism management. It has been discovered that the legal framework so far remains underdeveloped. In addition, when it comes to tourism policy management, the relevant functions tend to not be performed properly. Moreover, there is a lack of cooperation among the institutions responsible for tourism coordination or otherwise indirectly connected to the area, whereas cooperation between the local and the national level is minimal. This shows that a number of areas may require improvement in order for the country's tourism development policy to become more effective. However, if the country manages to perform a targeted elimination of the problematic areas and makes proper use of its strengths and existing potential in the tourism sector, such as the favorable geographical location, a well-developed sector of tourism-related services, rich recreational resources, or an attractive ratio between the quality and price of tourism products, the effective development of tourism in Lithuania will become possible in the long term.

In today's world, growing cultural integration has a direct impact on the development of tourism, which is important from the economic as well as the social, political or ecological perspective. Given the rapid expansion of tourism on the global market and the ever-increasing competitiveness of the tourism sector, it is important to assess the state of the tourism sector in Lithuania and determine the potential for its development. The results of the qualitative research have demonstrated that the policy options that could allow for the smooth development of Lithuanian tourism have eluded clear identification owing to the less than appropriate regulation of this area and the absence of effective tourism management. It has been discovered that the legal framework so far remains underdeveloped. In addition, when it comes to tourism policy management, the relevant functions tend to not be performed properly. Moreover, there is a lack of cooperation among the institutions responsible for tourism coordination or otherwise indirectly connected to the area, whereas cooperation between the local and the national level is minimal. This shows that a number of areas may require improvement in order for the country's tourism development policy to become more effective. However, if the country manages to perform a targeted elimination of the problematic areas and makes proper use of its strengths and existing potential in the tourism sector, such as the favorable geographical location, a well-developed sector of tourism-related services, rich recreational resources, or an attractive ratio between the quality and price of tourism products, the effective development of tourism in Lithuania will become possible in the long term.

uropean Union is facing challenges of ageing societies and changes in structure of economy, thus labour shortages turn into an urgent issue that ultimately affects labour market sustainability. In its attempt to recruit highly qualified workers EU has strong international competitors, e.g. USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and pursues a variety of initiatives at national level of the Member States and at the EU level in general. This article aims at assessing the EU policies related to migration of highly qualified workers. Statistical data analysis has revealed that labour mobility is increasing in EU. Thus the EU Mobility directive could be evaluated as bringing benefits, yet with a room for improvement, because highly qualified workers still make up just a small part in all the mobile citizens' population. National initiatives are more effective in fostering the migration of highly qualified workers, but this has the threat of unequal benefits in different EU regions; the effectiveness of EU Blue Card initiative is weak but with a high potential, thus it needs further improvements in its issuing policies.

In today's world, growing cultural integration has a direct impact on the development of tourism, which is important from the economic as well as the social, political or ecological perspective. Given the rapid expansion of tourism on the global market and the ever-increasing competitiveness of the tourism sector, it is important to assess the state of the tourism sector in Lithuania and determine the potential for its development. The results of the qualitative research have demonstrated that the policy options that could allow for the smooth development of Lithuanian tourism have eluded clear identification owing to the less than appropriate regulation of this area and the absence of effective tourism management. It has been discovered that the legal framework so far remains underdeveloped. In addition, when it comes to tourism policy management, the relevant functions tend to not be performed properly. Moreover, there is a lack of cooperation among the institutions responsible for tourism coordination or otherwise indirectly connected to the area, whereas cooperation between the local and the national level is minimal. This shows that a number of areas may require improvement in order for the country's tourism development policy to become more effective. However, if the country manages to perform a targeted elimination of the problematic areas and makes proper use of its strengths and existing potential in the tourism sector, such as the favorable geographical location, a well-developed sector of tourism-related services, rich recreational resources, or an attractive ratio between the quality and price of tourism products, the effective development of tourism in Lithuania will become possible in the long term.