Governmental category: 327 books
Economics in Minutes
200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Economics in Minutes condenses key economics concepts into 200 short and easily digested essays. Featuring not only fundamental ideas, such as the role of money and how the stock market works, but also subjects that are increasingly important to us today - unemployment, government debt and corporate...
DEFENSE INFRASTRUCTURE
Action Needed to Increase the Reliability of Construction Cost Estimates
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Between fiscal years 2005 and 2016, Congress annually appropriated between $2.5 to $9.6 billion in MILCON funding for the active component of the U.S. military to use for projects worldwide. Reliable project construction cost estimates are of great importance, since those estimates drive these appropriations...
The $13 Trillion Question
Managing the U.S. Government's Debt
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The underexamined art and science of managing the federal government's huge debt.
Everyone talks about the size of the U.S. national debt, now at $13 trillion and climbing, but few talk about how the U.S. Treasury does the borrowing-even though it is one of the world's largest borrowers. Everyone...
GENERIC DRUGS
FDA Should Make Public Its Plans to Issue and Revise Guidance on Nonbiological Complex Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018
Generic versions of brand-name drugs provide substantial cost savings for patients and the U.S. health care system. FDA, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has approved generic versions of NBCDs. Some industry stakeholders have asserted that, because it is difficult...
Facing Poverty and Marginalization
Fifty Years of Critical Research in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
A long history of poverty, discrimination, colonialism and struggle for social justice has provided, over the last fifty years, the context for the development of a vast amount of critical scholarship targeting marginalization in Brazil: Freireian pedagogics, theology of liberation, critical sociology,...
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Continued Actions Needed to Address Management Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
DOE’s NNSA is responsible for managing the nuclear weapons stockpile and supporting nuclear nonproliferation efforts. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management works to decontaminate and decommission facilities contaminated from decades of nuclear weapons production...
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
NNSA Should Adopt Additional Best Practices to Better Manage Risk for Life Extension Programs
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Weapons in the U.S. nuclear stockpile are aging. NNSA and the Department of Defense undertake LEPs to refurbish or replace nuclear weapons’ aging components. Prior LEPs experienced cost overruns, schedule delays, and scope reductions, and prior GAO reports identified the need for NNSA to use EVM...
VA HEALTH IT MODERNIZATION
Historical Perspective on Prior Contracts and Update on Plans for New Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018
VA operates the largest health care delivery system in America and VistA is essential to helping deliver the health care services and ensure the quality of health care received by the nation’s veterans and their dependents. The system has been in operation for more than 30 years, is costly to maintain,...
by William G. Arnold CCFM-A, CCA
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Avoid Violations of the Antideficiency Act!
Antideficiency Act (ADA) violations within both the financial and audit communities are now at an all-time high. Violations often result from a lack of knowledge about what is and what is not permissible under the law. The Antideficiency Act Answer...
Demonetisation Decoded
A Critique of India's Currency Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
On the night of 8 November 2016, at 8:15 pm, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced in a televised broadcast to the nation that with effect from midnight, currency notes of denominations Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 would no longer be legal tender. In one stroke, this involved the de-recognition...
by Bob Long
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
This book by former Division Controller at a Fortune 500 company dissects the federal budget from the point of view of someone far outside the Beltwayo Find out how the budget went from a surplus to a string of trillion dollars deficitso Understand why government revenues have dropped...
MEDICARE AND MEDICAID
CMS Needs to Fully Align Its Antifraud Efforts with the Fraud Risk Framework
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
CMS, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), provides health coverage for over 145 million Americans through its four principal programs, with annual outlays of about $1.1 trillion. GAO has designated the two largest programs, Medicare and Medicaid, as high risk partly...
Budget public et performance
Introduction à la budgétisation axée sur les résultats
Language: French
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Gérer en fonction de la performance n’est pleinement réalisable que si l’on budgète aussi en fonction de la performance. Si une gestion axée sur les résultats a été implantée par l’État québécois au tournant des années 2000, et si la prise de décisions publiques semble plus influencée...
Patt im Ausschuss
Die Abbildung politischer Mehrheitsverhaeltnisse in repraesentativen Gremien im Spannungsfeld von Staatsrecht und Staatspraxis
Language: German
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Immer wieder kommt es bei der Besetzung von Ausschüssen zu Pattsituationen zwischen dem Regierungs- und dem Oppositionslager. Der Autor geht der Frage nach, wie mit derartigen Pattsituationen umgegangen werden soll. Dabei berücksichtigt er einerseits die staatsrechtlichen Vorgaben für die Ausschussbesetzung,...