Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System Performance Plan, FY 2009

Agency Performance Plan, Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System

Turismo Rural como factor de desenvolvimento para São Tomé: Proposta das actividades turísticas para Roça de Monte Café e Suas Dependências

O trabalho agora concluído pretende apresentar uma proposta de desenvolvimento do turismo rural para São Tomé. Baseado na análise de estudo de caso de outros países, com objectivo de propor actividades turísticas envolvendo a comunidade local e os representantes do turismo, o estudo tenciona contribuir para a construção de uma imagem positiva da roça de Monte Café e suas dependências, visando o seu desenvolvimento. A referida Roça, enquanto um património arquitectónico, histórico, cultural, agroeconómico e natural, oferece as condições necessárias para a prática de turismo, relacionadas com a aventura, o espaço rural e a ecologia. Tais aspectos, aliados a uma infra-estrutura e a um planeamento adequado, tornam-se um excelente produto turístico. Com aplicação do inquérito por questionário para os residentes, comprova-se a possibilidade de implementação do projecto do ponto de vista social, desde que seja planeado de forma a prever impactos negativos e positivos futuros, e garantir um turismo sustentável.

Iowa Public Employees Retirement System Strategic Plan, 2007-2010

This report outlines the strategic plan for Iowa Public Employees Retirement System, goals and mission.

Increasing political returns and rural-urban migrations

This paper analyzes the different equilibria in rural-urban migrationsand political redistribution that result from the interaction betweenincreasing political returns, the distribution of land, and creditmarket imperfections. Governments that put a special weight on thewelfare of urban workers when setting agricultural prices generate apolitical externality in the urban sector, giving peasants anincentive to migrate in anticipation of policy determination. Ifcredit markets are imperfect, land ownership confers higherproductivity to peasants, who require large price changes to migrate.In this context, land inequality would lead to large migrations and tolarge policy change, while an egalitarian land distribution would leadto no migration and to a small policy change. This interaction shedslight on the contrasting experience of Latin America and East Asia atthe outset of World War II.

Audit report on the Rural Iowa Waste Management Association for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the Rural Iowa Waste Management Association for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the Peace Officers' Retirement, Accident and Disability System for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the Peace Officers' Retirement, Accident and Disability System for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the Iowa Judicial Retirement System for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the Iowa Judicial Retirement System for the year ended June 30, 2008

Mites associated to Xylopia aromatica (Lam.) Mart. (Annonaceae) in urban and rural fragments of semidecidual forest

Mites associated to Xylopia aromatica (Lam.) Mart. (Annonaceae) in urban and rural fragments of semidecidual forest. Native plants can shelter a great diversity of mites. Notwithstanding, the conservation of the forest fragments where the plants are located can influence the structure of the mites community. Generally, in homogenous environments the diversity is lower due to the dominance of one or a few species. In this work, we studied the mite community on Xylopia aromatica (Lam.) Mart. (Annonaceae) in two fragments of semidecidual forest: one on rural and other on urban area. Seven individuals of X. aromatica were monthly sampled from April 2007 to March 2008, in each of these fragments. Descriptive indexes of diversity, dominance and evenness were applied to verify the ecological patterns of the mite community, besides the Student's t-test to compare the abundance between the fragments. We collected 27,365 mites of 37 species belonging to 11 families. Calacarus sp. (Eriophyidae) was the most abundant species, representing 73% of the total sampled. The abundance was greater in the urban fragment (67.7%), with the diversity index reaching only 25% of the theoretical maximum expected. Probably, these values might have been influenced by the location of this fragment in the urban area, being more homogeneous and submitted directly to the presence of atmospheric pollution. In this manner, X. aromatica is able to shelter a higher diversity of mites when inserted in preserved ecosystems, since the highest diversity of available resources allows the establishment of richer and most diverse mite community.

Audit report of Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System as of and for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report of Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System as of and for the year ended June 30, 2008

Gerontocracy, retirement, and social security

Why are the old politically successful? We build a simple interest group model in which political pressure is time-intensive, showing that in the political competitive equilibrium each group lobbies for government policies that lower their own value of time but the old do so to a greater extent and as a result are net gainers from the political process. What distinguishes the elderly from other political groups (and what makes them more succesful) is that they have lower labor productivity and/or that we are all likely to become elderly at some point, while we are relatively unlikely to change gender, race, sexual orientation, or even ocupation, The model has a variety of implications for the design of social security programs, which we test using data from the Social Security Administration. For example, the model predicts that social security programs with retirement incentives are larger and that the old are more "single-minded" in their politics, implications which we verify using cross-country government finance data and cross-country political participation surveys. Finally, we show that the forced savings programs intended to "reform" the social security system may increase the amount of intergenerational redistribution. As a model for evaluating policy reforms, ours has the attractive feature that reforms must be time time consistent from a political point of view rather than a public interest point of view.

Género e Desenvolvimento Rural As agricultoras de Chã de Cana enquanto actores de desenvolvimento local

O presente trabalho intitulado “Género e Desenvolvimento Rural - As mulheres de Chã de Cana enquanto actores de desenvolvimento local”: atenta para outras dimensões do desenvolvimento rural, com o objectivo de desmistificar cada vez mais a complexidade que caracteriza essa categoria social, com realce para as particularidades de género e da ruralidade. O trabalho foi realizado com base na análise de informações recolhidas através de entrevistas, confrontadas com as várias abordagens e propostas de desenvolvimento, com maior ênfase para as abordagens territoriais, dando uma particular atenção à questão de género. O enfoque “mulher em desenvolvimento” deve ser entendido como uma forma diferenciada de engajamento das mulheres de Chã de Cana no processo de desenvolvimento local, engajamento esse que deve considerar as heterogeneidades de género como particularidades resultantes de um processo de construção social, de um sistema de símbolos e valores que, tende a ser orgânico portanto, se complementam num complexo processo de interacção social, e de sociabilidade, por vezes espontâneos.

Report on a review of selected general and application controls over the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System (IPERS) I-Que Pension Administration System for the period March 24, 2009 through April 22, 2009

Report on a review of selected general and application controls over the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System (IPERS) I-Que Pension Administration System for the period March 24, 2009 through April 22, 2009

Gestão de recursos humanos no Ministério de Desenvolvimento Rural-Delegação Santo Antão

A Gestão dos Recursos Humanos na Administração Pública Cabo-verdiana tem sofrido profundas mudanças, principalmente com a implementação do Plano de Cargos, Carreiras e Salários. Na Delegação Regional do Desenvolvimento Rural, Ambiente e Pesca da Ribeira Grande, Santo Antão e nas demais Instituições Públicas do Estado, as políticas e práticas da gestão dos recursos humanos são definidas de acordo com as normas, leis, regulamentos e diretrizes para toda a Administração Pública. O principal objetivo do estágio foi verificar as diferenças entre a teoria e a prática, principalmente no que refere-se as práticas de GRH descritos no relatório. Para alcançar tal objetivo fez-se uma pesquisa sobre a gestão dos recursos humanos e as suas práticas, enfatizando a prática de formação. A formação desempenha um papel preponderante na medida em que visa reforçar as capacidades institucionais de modo a adequar as capacidades individuais dos funcionários às profundas mudanças que vêm sendo implementadas no seio da Administração Pública. Durante o estágio e para a elaboração do relatório foram feitas pesquisas através da utilização de ferramentas metodológicas como análise documental (principalmente leis, decretos-lei e regulamentos) e observação. Com este trabalho pretende-se descrever as atividades desenvolvidas.