Suchergebnisse

O que é um indicador? Aparentemente, a solução é tão simples que nos pode iludir, economistas e demais cientistas sociais. Este trabalho procura esclarecer a resposta a esta questão, discutindo as dimensões metodológicas dos indicadores – desde a fase de produção até à fase de leitura, focando essencialmente o contexto dos indicadores económicos regionais.

Este trabalho debruça-se sobre o sector da educação pré-escolar em Portugal, numa perspectiva inovadora e alcançando resultados pioneiros. Avalia as diferenças nos ramos privado e público deste sector. Através de uma análise dos padrões de eficiência dos municípios do norte de Portugal, conclui que existe uma grande heterogeneidade de desempenhos dos locais, havendo uma tendência para que o pré-escolar público seja mais eficiente do que o pré-escolar privado assim como é menos ineficiente o sector quando se avalia o rácio do número de crianças e o número de educadores do que quando se avalia o rácio do número de crianças e o número de estabelecimentos de ensino.

AbstractEconomic literature suggests that economic factors and the availability of amenities act as determinants of migration choices together with socio‐demographic factors. Migration has also been found to be the consequence of political instability. This article argues that specific political events, i.e., democratic elections, may be linked to migration flows. By using European data over the 1999‐2012 time period, our system GMM estimations reveal that there is an emigration political cycle across European democracies and across the young democracies of Central and Eastern European countries. We observe that regular elections tend to diminish emigration ratios, whereas endogenous elections have the opposite effect. These results suggest special challenges for governments and oppositions, which are also discussed.

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Fiscal transparency is considered an essential feature of public financial management and is supposed to provide beneficial governance effects such as reducing corruption. This paper adds to recent empirical literature that specifically investigates the impact of fiscal information disclosure on corruption. Country-level evidence provided by previous studies is exclusively based on cross-sectional econometric analyses, while the present contribution relies on a wide-ranging, country-level dataset of 116 countries that cover a ten-year time span (2003–2012), and on dynamic panel data estimates. These innovations in terms of data and methods provide new, robust empirical support to the claim that fiscal transparency is negatively correlated with corruption.

"The shortcomings of traditional regional policies led to a major policy. Thus, regions have become more active in the design and implementation of policies, following a bottom-up approach, involving the participation of the local community in strategic planning, as opposed to the traditional top-down method. This book addresses regional development theories and policies, with a special focus on forgotten places, and raises emerging questions about recent theoretical advances, as well as trends and challenges in the field. It examines two main and related issues: the crucial role of regional actors for development and the role of forgotten spaces. It emphasizes the spatial/territorial approaches from different theoretical perspectives, underlining place-based approaches and compares the experiences of both successful and failed cases, attempting to identify lessons and policy recommendations, as well as adding empirical evidence to this field. The different cases presented, which focus on forgotten spaces, allow the reader to assess the role of different actors for regional development as well as some sectoral approaches. While there is a clear focus on European countries with different geographical, institutional and sociocultural characteristics, the book also examines good and bad examples of regional development and policies relating to forgotten places from different regions worldwide, including developed and developing countries. The book benefits from contributions from over twenty authors from different nationalities, and a rich diversity of case studies, approaches and methods of discussion. The authors discuss practical examples and more complex theoretical approaches, involving techniques of spatial analysis, spatial econometrics, social networks, content analysis as well as regional planning techniques. The book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience and will provide academicians, politicians, and policy designers with original and detailed analyses."