Understanding and freedom are essential
Over the past three years the share of European Union (EU) citizens who want to be self-employed has fallen from 45% to 37%, reports European Commission (EC). This year EC highlighted the need for more...
May 6, 2013 4:22 pm / 2 comments
Written statement for the WHO European Region’s high-level technical meeting on health systems in times of economic crisis, to be held on 17–18 April in Oslo, concerning the follow up the high-level ministerial meeting on this theme, held...
April 22, 2013 10:36 am / no comments
Monitoring of voting of members of the National Council of the Slovak Republic.
Project „MPs under public control” is an initiative of the F. A. Hayek Foundation Bratislava with collaboration of the Slovak TaxPayers‘ Association....
April 6, 2013 2:57 pm / no comments
1. Brief Description of the Problem:
Construction of a new Geriatric Treatment Center
2. Country:
USA
3. Type of local government:
City
4. Name of local government:
Williamsburg, Virginia
5. Years of implementation:
2006 –...
March 29, 2013 12:34 pm / 2 comments
Brief description of the solved problem: Information system for Human Resources (type of solution – decrease the administrative barrier)
Country of origin: Canada
Type of self-government: City
Name of self-government: Hamilton, province of...
March 20, 2013 9:42 am / 1 comment
Brief description of solved problem: Deregulation of traffic
Country of origin: Holland
Type of self-government: City
Name of self-government: Drachten, Holland (solution is also applied in self governments in Germany, Denmark, USA, Sweden etc…)
Date...
March 15, 2013 10:00 am / no comments
The Slovak „laboratory of reforms”. How to perform an overarching reform of the labour market.
Synthesis:
The Slovak Prime Minister, Mikulas Dzurinda, during the work of his first coalition (1998-2002) could not- as a result of the presence...
March 14, 2013 9:00 am / no comments
Synthesis:
The on-going process of demographic ageing forces states to reform their pension schemes. In order to assure the stability of the financing of pensions and the stable long-term economic growth, it is vital to increase the number...
March 11, 2013 12:03 pm / no comments
Synthesis:
The sudden rise in real estate prices in the United States of America (a real estate bubble) was one of the direct reasons of the outbreak of the global financial crisis. Nevertheless, contrary to common belief, this phenomenon was...
March 8, 2013 11:25 pm / no comments
Introduction
List of countries implementing flat tax reforms has been gradually getting longer over time. Although Hong Kong introduced its flat tax back in 1947, we could not see any similar reforms until 1994, when several transition economies...
March 6, 2013 4:16 pm / 7 comments