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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Municipal finance"”.
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Essays in Municipal Finance
… and a decrease in pension underfunding. Using municipal bond spreads and house prices as a proxy for the efficiency of increased municipal investment, I find that property tax limits inefficiently constrain local governments in Massachusetts. Easing these constraints leads to a 10-bps reduction …
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Epistemic communities and regional governance: policy development in municipal finance reform
… procedures analysis, I identify and analyze the municipal finance ECs that exist in Michigan. I examine the composition, interaction patterns, motivations for interactions, and functional performance of these communities which are involved in Michigan's municipal finance reform efforts.</p>
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Questions of resilience in municipal finance response to a shock event: a case study of the Cape Town drought
… drought. The impact of this drought on the municipal budget has been formidable. In terms of expenditure, considerable adjustments to the planned expenditure had to be made in order to source the funds required for large-scale infrastructure projects designed to increase resilience within …
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Power, Risk, and Democratic Control in State-Local Finance: The Effect of State Tax and Expenditure Limits on Municipal Debt and Risk
Municipal finance is important, if opaque, to the daily lives of people across the United States. Cities and towns provide essential services which are often financed through debt. Over the course of the 20th century, the use of debt in municipalities and the state-local relationship has …
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The development of a municipal bond market in Brazil : a comparative case study of the Deodoro F1 race track : Rio de Janeiro & COTA, Austin, TX
Considering the long history of privately financed capital projects in Latin America, this research paper examines the theory that the US municipal finance structure may serve as a prudent legal, regulatory model for emerging markets in Latin America. As such, the development of a sub-national debt …
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Housing for Whom: Does Adherence to Massachusetts' 40B Provide Adequate Stock of Housing Types Needed at the Local Level?
… respective locales. To test the hypothesis that municipalities favor subsidized unit types that are less of a draw on municipal finance, I compared the catalog of subsidized units in study communities to the locale's demographic profiles. This analysis showed a weak connection between the types …
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Have Video Gaming Revenues led to an Increase in Municipal Services in Illinois?
… but has yet to analyze the impact on the municipalities that receive 5% of the losses wagered on each terminal. This writing shows that video gaming has not led to an increase in municipal services through an expansion in capital projects, services provided, special events, and increased …
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Debt crisis in the local governments of South Africa: a policy and legal analysis.
… institutionally effective mechanisms to address municipal indebtedness and restore sound financial governance. Although South Africa possesses a robust legislative framework—anchored in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, the Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act, …
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Public hospital corporatization and innovation in Lebanon and Chile : agency and decision rights approaches
… Lebanon. My final paper explains innovation in municipal finance in Chile, using the incomplete contracts approach. In each of the papers, I draw lessons for institutional design.
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Curative Measures in Law for Financially Distressed Municipalities
… and provincial government levels intervene in municipalities that cannot or do not fulfil their executive obligations (section 139(8) of the Constitution of South Africa). However, informed by current South African and international scholarship, this study argues for sparingly using law and …
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Home, Again: Recommendations for strengthening social and financial post-buyout outcomes of the New Jersey Blue Acres Program
… neighborhood is used, and collaborating with municipalities to bring buyouts into their long-range adaptation planning. These form the basis of my question: How can Blue Acres strengthen the post-buyout branch of its services to ensure better long-term social and financial outcomes for its …
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Funding for adaptation to climate change : the case of Surat
… acknowledged, yet the question of adaptation finance remains uncertain. Unable to access global climate funds, cities must seek out alternative sources to support their adaptations to climate change. This is particularly challenging for local governments in India, where incomplete fiscal …
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State supervision of local finance in Michigan
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Economics, 1941
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A Critical Analysis of the Oversight Role and Function of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) in Promoting Accountability in South Africa’s Public Sector
… regulation. These include the 1999 Public Finance Management Act and the 2003 Municipal Finance Management Act. South Africa is struggling with measures to counter corruption and the abuse of power. Given that South Africa has instituted and inaugurated a number of critical institutional …
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Internal Auditors and Service Delivery in South African Local Government : a Limpopo Province Perspective
… to the communities it serves, consisting of municipalities. During the protests communities mainly complain about the lack of basic services such as water, electricity, housing delivery, unemployment and sanitation. Various studies relating to service delivery have focused on the causes of …
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The impact of the current public sector procurement system on the consulting engineering industry
… are governed by legislation such as the Public Finance Management Act, Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act and the Municipal Finance Management Act. All public sector institutions and public entities are therefore governed by this and must ensure compliance. There has however been an …
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Changing federal-municipal relations as reflected by aid-to-airports.
… theoretical and the practical aspects of federal-municipal relations. It is an effort to point out the growing dependency of municipal government to the national government; it provides a historical resume of this relation prior to the "New Deal", and the rapid growth of this relationship into the …
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