Social capital in the public sector

Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Intermediate public economics" provides readers with contents including: taxation; commodity taxation; the limits to redistribution; multiple jurisdictions; fiscal federalism; fiscal competition; issues in international taxation; intertemporal efficiency; social security; economic growth;...

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The promotion of socialization, promoting the dynamism and initiative of medical facilities, mobilizing organizations, individuals and businesses to invest in the development of medical facilities is very necessary, urgent need today. Therefore, in order to promote borrowing, capital mobilization, joint ventures, association, and property leasing in the future, the health sector needs to be improved.

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This research proposes and validates a model hypothesizing the relationships between social capital and knowledge sharing in the public sector. We employed a survey design using a questionnaire to collect data utilizing a convenient sampling method.

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Countries with a high investment GDP ratio benefit from better, competitive products and services. Which increases capital stock for production, more employment, and income; in turn reducing social and income disparities. The Kenyan government envisaged a sustained economic growth of 10% by investing in priority sectors; to become an industrialized middle-income country by the year 2030; though un-achieved to date.

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The research not only validates the existence of ecosystem frameworks in public administration and the key role played by intellectual capital in their design, creation and implementation, but it also highlights the need in the public sector for a defined role for intellectual capital, stakeholder engagement and collective intelligence in governance models.

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This paper explores how community engagement is implemented by the third sector organisation in public service delivery in the UK. This research applied a case-study approach involving two third sector organisations involved in public service delivery in the UK. The study’s findings revealed community engagement as an important aspect in public service delivery that fosters social cohesion and social capital and thus, the implementation of community engagement needs attention to stakeholders’ interaction, social network, and capability.

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The purpose of this study is to assess the impacts of public investment and private investment on some socio-economic issues in Nam Dinh province during the period 2000 - 2015. The results show that public investment impacts negatively on the economic growth of Nam Dinh province, the efficiency of the capital is still low and its contribution to the GDP of the province is not commensurate with the capital invested, while the private sector has positive impacts on economic growth, contributes much to the GDP of the province.

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This paper investigates the influence of intellectual capital on organizational performance in the public sector and studies the interconnections between intellectual capital variables within the latter setting. It follows a quantitative research approach where data was collected from 371 employees in a public entity within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. The findings highlight the importance of human, social and organizational capital in enhancing performance in the studied organization. Furthermore, the results show that the examined forms of capital can be interconnected.

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Allocation of scarce resources; land, labour, capital, foreign exchange; present and future consumption, optimum use of taxes and subsidy. Public ownership and planning, relationship between plans and projects selection and investment programme; private sector projects, method of evaluation of private projects, social cost- benefit and switching values, uses and abuses of sensitivity analysis. Accounting prices for traded and non-traded goods, marginal social costs and marginal social benefits, financing of projects, impact of project outputs on production and consumption elsewhere.

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The health system is composed of the public sector, the for-profit private sector and the non-profit private sector. Health care services are provided mainly through the public sector network (NHS), which relies on 1277 health facilities (HF), organized in 4 levels, with a total of 15 877 beds6 and around 26 000 health workers (Table 4). Level I offers essential primary care services through 1224 HF (urban and rural health centres and health posts) representing 96% of all national HF.

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Keynes’s liquidity preference theory touched on the maturity transformation issue. He argued that the private sector’s willingness to assume liquidity and maturity risks is not well-anchored in fundamentals. Instead it is strongly influenced by subjective factors. Hence his policy prescription was that government debt issuance should “accommodate the preferences of the public for different maturities”. It was, he argued, socially desirable that risk-averse investors should be offered some minimum, safe return on their capital.

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The study focuses on three fundamental questions: how to protect the most vulnerable without promoting informality and dampening incentives to work and save; how to ensure that scarce public resources are used for subsidies that are transparent, fair, and effective and not for badly targeted and regressive benefits for formal sector workers; and how to reinforce human capital development so that more workers can insure themselves through savings or risk-pooling arrangements, reducing vulnerability and the need for subsidies....

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The second future path for social funds is as special-purpose vehicles, providing selective seed capital to foster innovations in community de- velopment, to experiment with new technologies, and to act as the government’s agent in remote areas and for very small-scale activities. Even though many of the social funds might already characterize them- selves as special-purpose vehicles, they have gotten much broader.

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We have found that social funds can be a unique and invaluable instru- ment in reaching people at the local level directly and in capitalizing the energies of a wide range of partners: public sector, private sector, NGOs, and the local communities themselves. Looking back on the past ten years, the scale and scope of our activity has been substantial. Looking forward to the next ten years, it is crucial that we use the lessons of experience to ensure that we deploy this instrument as effectively as possible. So, what have we learned?...

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The Capital Market Climate Initiative (CMCI) is a UK initiative, bringing together experts from the financial and public sector to help deliver private climate financing at scale in developing countries by: identifying deliverable propositions to mobile private capital; developing a base of evidence build developing country interest and support; and building private sector confidence in the feasibility of the task and opportunities.

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