The transition dynamic, the status of the Member State of the European Union, as well as the current global economic crisis context, determined new challenges for the Romanian public administration. The article presents an analysis of the management practiced in Romania in 2010, compared with...

For Romania, the rural area represent a difficult problem because it has a high share. During the communist era, a forcefully reduction of the rural share was undertaken through various means, most often destructive (Ailenei, 2001). Even the transition to a market economy has failed to improve...

According to Keynes, increasing of the public investment is one of the best solutions to economic recovery, since it causes strong effects upon the economic growth. However, according to recent studies, public investment expenditure generates less effect in the short term, due to the lags...

The public sector, represented mainly by public enterprises, is important because it provides the link between the private and public interests. The state support for public enterprises and trade monopolies may create discrimination between them and private companies. Because of the importance...

In this paper, I provide an overview of some of the issues surrounding the measurement of government performance, focusing on the case of the U.S. federal government. After defining government performance and introducing the challenge of measuring it, I examine how this challenge is being...

Quality of life is a concept used in all areas of economic and social life. It is a subjective concept, complex, with a multidisciplinary and multidimensional features. In this paper we want to study quality of life and the hierarchy of Romanian cities in this regard. For the measurement the...

Nowadays, public-private partnerships (PPPs) have resulted into a world-wide instrument for governments facing insufficient resources for growing public investment needs. Despite the general interest surrounding the cooperation between public bodies and private companies, the tendency of...

In recent years urban management conceptual evolutions are more and more connected to the chances in public administration practice, in particular to ways of raising efficiency and effectiveness. The interest shared by a great number of stakeholders regarding urban development, the increasing...

Hospital performance is one of the key elements to be considered when the reform process is designed for a better patient satisfaction. The paper provides a means to define what hospitals actually do, and to compare that with the original targets in order to identify opportunities for...

This paper is an attempt to clarify and present the many definitions of benchmarking. It also attempts to explain the basic steps of benchmarking, to show how this tool can be applied by local authorities as well as to discuss its potential benefits and limitations providing a series of examples...