financial discipline of government to their creditors and credit rating agencies, bringing revenues closer to costs; they can be politically and ideologically driven too. Austerity is expressed primarily in cuts of salaries and social packages of public sector employees, reducing of pension and other socially oriented programs with parallel
Net Neutrality is not a bill passed by Congress and signed by the President, yet created by the FCC back in 2010. The gist of the rule is that broadband-access providers, wired and wireless, cannot block their consumer’s devices, applications or services. It would cause unreasonable discrimination for offering better access for people who can pay more. Without Net Neutrality, providers can make a fast and a slow lane for consumers. In Thomas Hazlett’s book “The fallacy of Net Neutrality”, he brings
certain services. As prison populations expanded, however, completely privately owned and operated prisons began to proliferate. The privatization of the prison industry, and by extension the privatization of justice itself, for what is incarceration if not the conclusion of the justice process, is inherently repulsive. Due to obvious
“Anger against the bitter pandemic of corruption is legitimate, as is the protest against this plague that is eroding the capability and potential of our nation” - President Pranab Mukherjee A country is judged by the economic status it attains on the world panorama. Stepping into the 21st century the fact can be accentuated by the growing trepidation of a progress which a nation seeks and India is no different in such a competing environment of the developed, developing and underdeveloped.
For the purposes of this argument, private vendors who are contracted to provide certain services (such as food or health care) at government run institutions will also be included in the discussion. In the United States, the first private prison was San Quentin, opened in 1852 in California. While San Quentin
The conventional argument is that propaganda was not overrated because it included rewards for the people if they did follow the propaganda. However, propaganda is not effective because it made people believe less in the system sometimes, by using fear and terror. However
Throughout William Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure, we are introduced to many arguments about reputation and what it means to be a good Duke. The play, which is centered on the Duke’s disappearance and reappearance in disguise as a Friar, proposes some interesting insights into what it means to be a good Duke and how to maintain a good reputation. The Duke throughout the play presents himself as many different versions of what it means to be a good ruler. At first he is weak and unable to
There are many exports from the US to locations all over the world such as cd’s, tv shows and clothing but food is the one product that can be actually consumed. Critics of the fast food industry are often referred to as un- American because they go against the “beloved American institution” . Fast food serve as a metaphor for American life because as fast food has become the american
or lesser extent. Act on Disclosure of Information by Public Agencies, 1996 Act enacted in 1996 by the South Korean government with the intent of ensuring people's right to know and to secure participation of the people in State affairs. The Act is enforced to promote transparency in the operation of state affairs. Act provides an obligation to the government for disclosing the matters concerning the information possessed and managed by public
1 Mental illness – a key public health issue The World Health Organization upon acknowledging the significance of global mental health defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (WHO, 1946, p.1). This apt definition led the dictum that “there is no health without mental health” (WHO, 2004, p.10), with endorsements from reputable organisations such as the World Federation of Mental Health, EU Council of Ministers