Report on the Office of Governor for the year ended June 30, 2007

Report on the Office of Governor for the year ended June 30, 2007

Social spending and demographics: The role of public policies in the intergenerational redistribution of income. Empirical evidence from Spain and Catalonia

The demographic shift underway in Southern Europe requires a revision of some of thefundamental principles of the traditional welfare state. We analyze the evolution of several aspects of welfare and social expenditure over the last two decades. We find that in the context of the present demographic changes and real estate boom current social and pension policy leads to a new distribution of benefits and burdens which is highly intergenerationally unequal. We argue for a revised definition of public policy based on Musgrave's proposition as a possible rule for an intergenerationally fair distribution.

Iowa Department of Public Defense Performance Plan, FY 2009

Agency Performance Plan, Iowa Department of Public Defense

Iowa Department of Public Safety Performance Plan, FY 2009

Agency Performance Plan, Iowa Department of Public Safety

Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy Performance Plan, FY 2009

Agency Performance Plan, Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy

Iowa Department of Public Health Performance Plan, FY 2009

Agency Performance Plan, Iowa Department of Public Health

Audit report on the Office of Treasurer of State, Iowa Educational Savings Plan Trust for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the Office of Treasurer of State, Iowa Educational Savings Plan Trust for the year ended June 30, 2008

Iowa Department of Public Defense Strategic Plan, 2002-2022, 2008

This report outlines the strategic plan for Iowa Department of Public Defense, goals and mission.

Iowa Department of Public Safety Strategic Plan, 2008

This report outlines the strategic plan for Iowa Department of Public Safety, goals and mission.

Radial measures of public services deficit for regional allocation of public funds

The goal of this paper is to present an optimal resource allocation model for the regional allocation of public service inputs. Theproposed solution leads to maximise the relative public service availability in regions located below the best availability frontier, subject to exogenous budget restrictions and equality ofaccess for equal need criteria (equity-based notion of regional needs). The construction of non-parametric deficit indicators is proposed for public service availability by a novel application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models, whose results offer advantages for the evaluation and improvement of decentralised public resource allocation systems. The method introduced in this paper has relevance as a resource allocation guide for the majority of services centrally funded by the public sector in a given country, such as health care, basic and higher education, citizen safety, justice, transportation, environmental protection, leisure, culture, housing and city planning, etc.

Iowa Department of Public Health, Strategic Plan, 2007-2011

This report outlines the strategic plan for Iowa Department of Public Health, goals and mission.

Governor's Office of Drug Control Policy, Strategic Plan, 2003-2008

This report outlines the strategic plan for Governor's Office of Drug Control Policy, goals and mission.

Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Annual Report 2008, January 2009

The State Long-Term Care Ombudsman program operates as a unit within the Iowa Department of Elder Affairs. Duties of all long-term care ombudsmen are mandated by the Older Americans Act. This office serves people living in nursing facilities, skilled nursing facilities, residential care facilities, nursing facilities in hospitals, elder group homes and assisted living programs. The long-term care system in Iowa has changed significantly over the past 10 years. Local long-term care ombudsman programs in Iowa are now well established. Iowa still ranks near the bottom of 53 ombudsman programs in the nation for ratio of paid staff to residents with one ombudsman for each 7,400 residents compared to the national average of one ombudsman for each 2,174 residents. The Resident Advocate Committee Program remains stable at 2400 volunteers and Iowa continues to be the only state in the nation with this type of program. Because volunteers do not receive training as required by the Administration on Aging, volunteers are not certified volunteer ombudsmen and the work done by these volunteers cannot be included in Iowa’s annual federal reports. With the changing population living in long-term care facilities, this volunteer job is much more challenging than in the past. Helping to build a long-term care system in Iowa that provides individualized, person-directed quality care is the long-term goal for this office.

Iowa Department of Transportation Office of Contracts Letting Summary - Fiscal 2008

Report of the letting activity of the Iowa Department of Transportation's Office of Contracts required by Iowa Code Section 307.12(15).

Audit report on the Iowa State Center Business Office of Iowa State University of Science and Technology for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the Iowa State Center Business Office of Iowa State University of Science and Technology for the year ended June 30, 2008