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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Red tape"”.
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Unraveling red tape: foreign aid allocation and the domestic bureaucracy
… support). An aid agency’s policy may be altered when a new government is elected; however, an agency with greater autonomy is more likely to retain a consistent agenda over time. Bureaucrats with greater autonomy are also more likely to take advantage of that autonomy to increase their role …
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Caught up in red tape : bureaucratic hassles undermine sense of belonging in college among first generation students
… frustrating (or not). The frustrating web form reduced self-reported sense of belonging and perceived probability of success among first-generation college students. Study 2, a multi-session field study, conceptually replicated this finding with a different type of bureaucratic challenge -- a …
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Bureaucratizing Participation: Stakeholders' Perceptions of the Administrative Rules Governing Public Participation in the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization
… processes, more positively (as 'green tape') or more negatively (as 'red tape'), and how those perceptions have changed since 2007, relying on in-depth interviews as well as archival documents. Before 2007, top management officials had pessimistic perceptions of public participation in …
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The Effects of Knowledge Sharing on Program Performance: Influences on CPS Program Performance
… public service motivation, self-set goals, red tape, economic conditions, staffers' professionalism, budgetary resources, and program performance, I examined Virginia's Child Protective Services program. The Virginia Department of Social Services determines the guidelines and policies for …
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Reasons Why Low-Income Women in Northwest Missouri Do Not Access No-Cost Mammography Services
… treatable stage, expand treatment options, and reduce mortality. Despite access to no-cost mammography services, Missouri women experience the lowest mammography utilization rate in the nation. In Northwest Missouri the rate of mammography utilization is particularly low: 1 in 3 women over the …
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The Better Regulation Burden Reduction Mechanisms: A Lens for the Evaluation of Regulatory Practices between 2010 and 2019
… Government announced in 2010 that it would “cut red tape by introducing a ‘One In, One Out’ rule whereby no new regulation would be brought in without other regulation being cut by a greater amount”. The One IN, One OUT regime came into effect on 1 January 2011. It was superseded by One IN, Two …
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The Implementation of Teacher Assistance Teams as a Prereferal
… approximately 92 percent of those students referred were tested and 73 percent were placed in special education.</p> <p>New trends in education are calling for alternatives to special education referral and placement. Regular classroom teachers are often discouraged by the "red tape" requirements …
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Foreign direct investment and corruption
… money that enables firms to avoid bureaucratic red tape and expedite the decision making process. This study attempts to build empirical models to investigate the relationship between foreign direct investment and corruption and identify the determinants of corruption itself. As tolerance …
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Entrepreneurship policy for entrepreneurs : a cognitive approach to the entrepreneurial environment
… to encourage entrepreneurship by, for example, reducing red-tape and improving access to financing. However, these efforts do not appear to be having the hoped effect of fostering more entrepreneurship. Starting from the maturing field of literature that applies cognitive science to …
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Traumatized Through Healing: The Stigmatization and Misrecognition of Trauma Among American Physicians
… of contributing factors which can be considered. Concerns about trauma are overlooked in favor of discussions about work hour restrictions, paperwork, and bureaucratic red tape. While these are important topics worth considering, choosing to use language to define the problem which directs …
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Importance of SME development in Cambodia
… market-oriented framework for SME development, reduce the cost of doing business and related to bureaucratic red tape, improve the access to finance for SMEs, and improve market access for SMEs.
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Public value of e-Government investments in the developing countries: empirical exploration of the public sector in Kenya
… identified as one of the major competencies required to re-invigorate governance, enhance performance and reduce red-tape bureaucracies in the public sector, e-Government being the use of ICTs in the transformation of public organizations towards efficient service delivery. Though information …
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A systemic exploration of information systems project risks in the South African public sector
… model of the most dominant risks encountered and identify the interrelationships that exist between these risks. Design and methodology: The study is conducted through the application of Interactive Management (IM) to identify IS project risks and structure the interrelationships between …
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An examination of the development and implementation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 during the Johnson administration
… At the state level, the amount of paper work and red tape involved in complying with the provisions of the Act added to the fear of federal control.7. Reorganization of the United States Office of Education brought it from a timid bureau to a vigorous department to manage and monitor the new …
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An Exploration of Social and Rural Entrepreneurship and the Role of Youth Entrepreneurs: A Case of Stellenbosch Local Municipality
… and rural entrepreneurship activities are explored as a tool to address youth unemployment. This study aims to investigate innovative solutions related to youth entrepreneurship and innovative solutions for municipal support of youth entrepreneurship in social and rural contexts from four …
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The development of Malaysian petrochemical complexes of the East-Coast industrial corridor
… industrial (PTCI) sites may be considered a niche in the property market. Mainstream economics, industrial development and real estate studies related literatures treat it as the same as others. By prescribing the New Institutional Economics (NIE) approach, this research seeks to find a …
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An Interagency Approach to Reforming the Administration of Federal Grant-In-Aid Programs: A Case Study of the Indian Task Force of the Western Federal Regional Council
… administration of these programs has been hampered at the intergovernmental level by the tremendous explosion in the number of grant-in-aid programs, the increasing reliance on categorical grant-in-aid programs, the confusing network of red tape, the development of a "function bureaucracy" which …
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Challenges micro-enterprises experience in accessing support information using e-Government websites: Case of the Western Cape
… for the study was collected using semi-structured interviews. Furthermore, annual reports, published statistics and additional documents were also used as secondary data. Purposive and snowballing sampling were used to target established micro-enterprises in the Western Cape, South Africa. …
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Systemic Corruption: A Multi-Theoretic, Multi-Level and Mixed Methods Analysis of the Interplay among Institutional Logics, Strategic Agency and Reward Expectancy
… “connectors” - ex-military officers, retired politicians and top government officials - who grease its wheels.At the firm level, a quantitative analysis of 2,599 firms provides evidence of significant and positive relationships between enactment of bribery and the level of institutional …
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The information needs and seeking behaviour of orphans and vulnerable children and their caregivers, and the role of service providers in Namibia
… services. The most important information required, according to the OVC from Ohangwena, was information on school development fund exemption, financial assistance or grants, health services, child care/support and training opportunities. The OVC from Khomas had similar priorities with the …
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