Obveznice z družbenim učinkom Matjaž Črnigoj; Damjan Kavaš; Nataša Kump
Economic and business review,
07/2019, Volume:
21, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
The article presents social impact bonds, which are an innovative way of financing social actions, and analyzes their possible use in Slovenia. We conclude that this type of financing could be ...successfully used as a complement to existing government measures and could also bring certain benefits to existing measures. Much remains to be done to successfully put the model into practice, as both the state and social service providers are very reluctant to involve private capital in the provision of social protection to the population.
Abandoned and neglected historical buildings are a common feature of many central European cities. The Interreg Central Europe Cooperation Programme has also recognized this issue, and it has ...identified deterioration of cultural heritage as one of the main challenges to be tackled within the program. Part of this program is also the project ForHeritage-Excellence for Integrated Heritage Management in Central Europe. The project builds on previous tools and experiences, pushing the results into the practice of the participating regions and beyond. Based on what was learned and the documents created in previous projects, a toolbox for cultural heritage management has been produced. The toolbox contains a set of six new, concise, and practice-oriented tools that focus on various aspects of cultural heritage management. Here, Murovec and Kavas discuss the tools.
•Agricultural payments were not associated with groundwater pollution with nitrates.•A-E payments are only effective in reducing pesticides in groundwater.•Direct payments and coupled subsidies ...increase pesticides in groundwater.•Results imply a problem of insufficient targeting of agri-environmental measures.•The evidence suggests that greening is necessary and entirely justified.
The European Common Agricultural Policy still follows its primary goals, i.e. quality food at affordable prices and a decent standard of living for farmers, fifty years after its adoption. Moreover, this policy adapts to the changing needs of society and the new challenges, mostly preservation of the environment, nature and biodiversity in rural areas. Although the Common Agricultural Policy receives the largest share of European budget, the funds are decreasing over time, especially direct payments, which aim to provide basic income support to farmers in the European Union. On the other hand, agri-environmental payments are gaining importance. Policy decision-makers should be interested in the question of impacts of growing eco-conditionality of agricultural spending. New insights would help them to be successful in achieving the goals of sustainable agriculture. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impacts of production support payments and rural development payments on the quality of groundwater. We use the small EU country Slovenia as an example. The baseline indicators are the level of nitrates and pesticides in groundwater, while the impacts were estimated using spatial error model. The results show that direct payments, coupled subsidies and investment grants raise the level of pesticides in groundwater, but do not have any statistically significant impact on the level of nitrates in groundwater. Furthermore, we did not find any statistically significant effects of agri-environmental payments on decrease of groundwater pollution with nitrates. However, our findings revealed that agri-environmental payments are effective in reducing pesticides in groundwater, although only to a limited extent. These results imply a problem of insufficient targeting of agri-environmental measures on the one hand, and suggest that greening of direct payments is necessary and entirely justified.
Murovec and Kavas discuss the Forget Heritage project. The project tackles an issue present in most cities characterized by unused historical buildings that have marked the history of the local ...community in various ways. This is not about widely recognized "A list" cultural heritage buildings, but buildings such as former factories, hospitals, schools, or barracks, which are a backdrop and often invisible to the public eye.
In the article, we study financing and efficiency of Slovenian Public General Libraries. We employ a rich dataset of CEZAR – Centre for Development of Libraries for the years 2008-2014 for 58 ...libraries and use data envelopment analysis and regression methods to study the efficiency of libraries over the years. Our main results show that the problems for the libraries in this period did not lie in the lowered efficiency but more likely in other system requirements. We also provide a grouping of libraries following clustering analysis and show it had significant effects on the performance of the libraries.
OBVEZNICE Z DRUŽBENIM UČINKOM Črnigoj, Matjaž; Kavaš, Damjan; Kump, Nataša
Economic and business review for Central and South-Eastern Europe,
01/2019, Volume:
21
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
У príspevku predstavljamo obveznice z družbenim učinkom (angl. social impact bonds), ki so inovativen način financiranja intervencij na socialnem področju, in analiziramo njihovo potencialno uporabo ...pri nas. Ugotavljamo, da bi se tovrstni način financiranja lahko uspešno uporabil kot dopolnitev obstoječega sistema ukrepov socialne politike države in bi lahko poleg tega prinesel tudi v obstoječe politike določene koristi. Za uspešno uvajanje modela v prakso bo treba pri nas še veliko narediti, saj se je tako pri državi kot tudi pri izvajalcih socialnih storitev pokazalo veliko neodobravanje vključevanja zasebnega kapitala v zagotavljanje socialnega varstva prebivalcev.
Ovaj se rad bavi istraživanjem poslovnih zona u slovenskim i hrvatskim dijelovima Istre. Sadašnju situaciju karakterizira netransparentnost u pogledu broja, opsega i rasprostranjenosti razvojnih ...područja. Analiza je provedena usporednom metodom kako bi se utvrdila postojeća situacija i potencijalna rješenja za efikasniju ulogu tih zona u koncepciji prostornog razvoja Istre kao cjeline. Rad pokazuje da je potrebno uvesti poboljšanja u okvirima programske tipologije, ažuriranja podataka te upravljanja i marketinga.
The focus of the study was business zones in Slovenian and Croatian Istria. The existing situation is characterised by a non-transparent situation as to the number, extent, and range of development areas. In the study, we used the comparative method to determine the existing situation and potential solutions for a more efficient role of zones in the concept of spatial development of Istria as a whole. We found that improvements in the fields of programmatic typology, data updating, and the management and marketing system were necessary.
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