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Snow cover fraction on land fromt MODIS at the three GEM sites
No full textSnow cover fraction on ground from MODIS.
Gaps due to cloud cover are filled using the last available observation. A description paper is in preparation.Please contact the author directly with any questions
Public Libraries – Facilitators of Information Society and e- Inclusion in Latvia
No full textAbstractThe economic growth and national competitiveness is closely correlated with the development of information society. In the last few years the role of public libraries has significantly increased and libraries have greatly contributed to the improvement of information society in Latvia. The usage of library services had never been as high as they were in 2011 – 42% of the population were active library users and 90% of them used the Internet. Nowadays, the public library network in Latvia provides a powerful network of information, knowledge and community centres and they are highly demanded by society
Latvijas majsaimniecibu budzeta petijuma datu reprezentativitates novertesana un paaugstinasana
No full textSeparate summary in Latvian, English, 68 p.Available from Latvian Academic Library / LAL - Latvian Academic LibrarySIGLELVLatvi
The demand of Public Administration management’s staff competences in the future
No full textThe development of the competences of the staff of the Latvian Public Administration has been drawing
more and more attention. The aim of the development of the human resources is a professional, motivated, advanced and
honest staff of the Public Administration. It means that it is necessary to evaluate the competences of the staff in order to
upgrade them and understand what is in demand nowadays. Improved personal and professional competences are
regularly needed to improve the quality, efficiency, development of creative thinking, knowledge and adaptation to the
trends and demands of the 21 st century. It is therefore important to understand whether employees are in line with a
specialised profession in order to improve and maintain the skills of employees, who have played an important role in the
work process as a result of the rapid development of technology today. It is therefore important to find out what
competencies will become an integral part of human work.
The aim of the research is to understand, what kind of competences in the future are going to be in demand for Public
Administration staff.
The methods used in the research work are going to be the analysis of the documents and data analysis.
The results of the research are going to be used in practice by evaluating and upgrading the competences of the Public
Administration staff
Methodological perspective of evaluation of Green public procurement
No full textEvery year the European Union (EU) Member States collectively spend around 14% of Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) on public procurement. In Latvia, public procurement accounts for 17% of GDP. The review of the
new public procurement directives and their transposition process in Latvia plans to show new opportunities for green
public procurement (GPP) application: the contracting authority will be able to reject, for example, an abnormally low
bid, include environmental management system requirements in the selection criteria, use life cycle costing criteria,
etc. GPP is the systematic integration of environmental criteria into all activities related to the procurement of goods
or services, from the identification of needs, the development of appropriate specifications and evaluation procedures,
to the monitoring of the results achieved. Solutions for the promotion of GPP proposed by the new Public procurement
Law project and the Cabinet of Ministers' draft regulation "Requirements and Application of Green Public
Procurement" will also be analyzed. The aim of the work is to explore the application of GPP to improve the quality
of GPP
DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC THEORY – FROM THEORIES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO THE PARADIGM OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
No full textRapid economic growth is a relatively recent phenomenon, which has been examined since the end of the 18th century. In the scientific literature researchers use the concept of “economic growth” and “economic development” when analyzing economic processes. “Economic growth”, as defined by Paul M. Romer occurs whenever people use resources and rearrange them in more valuable ways. Thus, economic growth means an increase in a real national income / national output. In contrast, economic development is an improvement of the quality of life and living standards, e.g. improvement of literacy, life expectancy, and approach to environmental issues. Economic development encircles a wider range of metrics than just gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, it is about actual standard of living, level of environmental standards, availability and quality of housing and other aspects. The article analyzes, compares and evaluates theories of economic growth and economic development in the context of sustainable development
Electronic procurement system – instrument for implementing green public procurement: analysis of the Latvia’s expierence
No full textGreen public procurement (GPP) is a mean of saving up finances for public institutions, especially taking
into consideration not only procurement price but also total expenses of the contract lifecycle. In Latvia the first Electronic
Procurement System (EPS) was established in 2005 and was the first such procurement system in the Baltic States.
Initially, it only acted as an e-Procurement system in which public institutions can purchase standard goods and services.
This paper analyzes the success of the implementation methodology for evaluating e-Procurement in public procurement.
The aim of the paper is to explore the proportion of applied GPP of total procurement in EPS in Latvia in the period
from 2015 to 2017, and to analyze how the aims of the proportion of GPP are achieved. In order to investigate the share
of GPPs in the EPS, data on purchases made by EPS was collected and analyzed. An analysis was made of the percentage
of GPP and the most important groups for which GPP was appropriate, and it was assessed whether the objectives set by
the GPP have been achieved. GPP proportion in procurement made within the EPS in 2015 was 9%, 2016 - 8%, but in
2017 - 19.10%, which means that GPP a substantial increase. As the calculations made in the study prove a complete
transition to e-Procurement will reduce both administrative costs and significant savings for the state budget in the Latvia
Context Aware Mobile Learning as a Factor for Economic Growth
No full textAbstractMobile technologies have become an integral tool for communication and information delivery. It transformed educational paradigms from traditional one-size-fits-all to personalized and context aware learning. Such education can support human resources development, resulting in improved outcomes. Quality of education and working skills are the important driving force for economic development. This paper deals with the role of mobile learning in education, which is unique in terms of flexibility of time and location, but it requires extra planning and analyses of appropriate technologies during learning design process. The contextual information can be static, but some parts are dynamic and unpredictable. In this paper the model which combines static and dynamic context for mobile learning content development is proposed. This model will promote the productivity growth that has a major impact on economic growth
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