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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Municipal services"”.
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Disparities in the distribution of municipal services
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering; and, (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1971.
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Public sector unions and the privatization of municipal services
The transfer of government services to the private sector, or privatization as it is generally called, has received considerable attention in recent years. However, few attempts have been made to investigate the issue from a labor relations perspective. This dissertation attempts to alleviate this …
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Assessment of quality of municipal services and residents' satisfaction with these services
… attitudes of residents towards the quality of municipal services. SERVQUAL comprises two batteries of items, one for expectations and one for perceptions, and posits that there are five dimensions to the quality construct. The aims of this study are (a) to develop a reliable and valid …
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Application of ethics in the provision of municipal services in Makhado Local Municipality
Access to basic municipal services is a major challenge in South Africa. Section 152 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, makes provision for municipalities to deliver basic services to their local communities. Local government plays an important role in ensuring that …
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Application of ethics in the provision of municipal services in Makhado Local Municipality
Access to basic municipal services is a major challenge in South Africa. Section 152 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, makes provision for municipalities to deliver basic services to their local communities. Local government plays an important role in ensuring that …
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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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Good governance in the provision of municipal services: a case of Vhembe District Municipality
… focuses on good governance in the provision of municipal services at the Vhembe District Municipality. The local communities judge their municipalities’ performance through the provision of services and the treatment that they get from its officials. The challenge of governance adversely affects …
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Peace Corps Service to Develop Community Capacity for Sustainability Planning: The Experience of Areguá, Paraguay
… sustainability planning as part of a Peace Corps Municipal Services Development project in Areguá, Paraguay. It sketches the context in which the initiative occurred, outlines relevant academic research on community sustainability planning, and describes the strategies adopted to assist Areguá in …
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Strategies enhancing community engagement in local government: a case study of Thulamela Local Municipality
… community engagement in Thulamela Local Municipality. Community engagement is critical to effective governance and service delivery in local municipalities. The extent of community involvement in municipal services has been inconsistent, leading to a gap between public expectations and …
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'Free Basic Water' and cost recovery : impact on low-income households in Grabouw
… faced the enormous challenge of providing services to those disadvantaged by apartheid. In the area of water provision, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry implemented a policy of cost recovery to enable local government to become financially sustainable. However, as this policy …
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An assessment of the viability of labour intensive township development in the Cape Metropolitan Area
… in conventional construction. Labour intensive municipal infrastructure projects have been implemented in South Africa since 1985, but it is only in recent years that large township development projects in the Cape Metropolitan Area were undertaken with a purposeful exchange of machines for …
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A socio-economic study of Parkwood Estate, Cape Flats
Parkwood Estate in the municipality of Cape Town is part of the Wynberg Ward. It is bounded on the west by the Prince George Drive, an arterial road to the False Bay Suburbs, on the north by the Golf Links Estate and on the other side by farmlands not as yet sub-divided into plots. Parkwood Estate, …
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The impact of digital innovation on municipal service delivery: a case of Thulamela Local Municipality, Limpopo Province
… and adopting innovative methods to improve municipal service delivery. The study seeks to examine the impact of digital innovation on municipal service delivery in the Thulamela Local Municipality, Limpopo Province. Digital innovation is concerned with using modern technologies or developing …
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The Feasibility of Annexation: A Cost-Revenue Approach for Bowling Green, Kentucky
… costs incurred by the city for the provision of services associated with annexation as compared to the expected revenues to be obtained from these sections. Costs were derived by analyzing the expenditures for each city service. This was done by examining the past budgets for each department. The …
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Assessing community participation in the Integrated Development Plan to enhance service delivery at Mbizana Local Municipality
… for poor service delivery in the Mbizana Local Municipality. The study attempted to comprehend if this poor service delivery is caused by the inadequate management of an Integrated Development Plan (IDP) or the lack of community participation in local government affairs, particularly in the …
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Advanced space-time integration for knowledge discovery in human mobility studies
… public health, tourism, and social network services. With the fast-growing volume of and interest in spatio-temporal mobility data, there is also an increasing need for new methods of analyzing this kind of data. Particularly, considerable effort has been made to characterize human …
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Framework for addressing drawbacks of central government fiscal transfers in Zambia
… grants -to guarantee effective provision of municipal services. Local Authorities, therefore, depend on central government grants and other statutory allocations to meet expenditure. These grants are linked to central government’s determined policies resulting in local authorities become …
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Framework for addressing drawbacks of central government fiscal transfers in Zambia
… grants -to guarantee effective provision of municipal services. Local Authorities, therefore, depend on central government grants and other statutory allocations to meet expenditure. These grants are linked to central government’s determined policies resulting in local authorities become …
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Community characteristics and the provision of emergency medical services
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is provided in a variety of different ways in the United States. Methods of service delivery range from the purely private to the completely public and include mixtures that are not clearly one or the other. Based on a review of the literature, this variation is …
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The role of special districts in the efficient provision of local public services
… of special districts in providing local public services is assessed. Using economic theory, it is determined, theoretically, that special districts do provide an institution by which consumption, production, and distributional efficiency in the provision of local public goods and services can be …
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