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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"small municipalities"”.
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Design and validation of a data-driven infrastructure decision and planning framework for improving climate resiliency of small municipalities and rural communities
… communities concerning climate change. Resilient municipalities must make decisions incorporating climate change to reinvest in an aging infrastructure network. The challenge is that small municipalities need access to information or the capacity to make informed decisions. Expenses related to …
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Storm Water System Monitoring for the Small Municipality Under Phase II of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
… System (NPDES) Phase II requirements, small municipalities are responsible for storm water impacts on receiving waters within their jurisdiction. For the purposes of NPDES Phase II requirements, small municipalities are identified as these municipalities that are typically composed of …
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Impacto da implementação da NFC-e na arrecadação da BAHIA e avaliação do programa Nota Premiada Bahia
… the request for invoices by up to 12.8% for small municipalities in Bahia.
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Conflict and child labor: evidence from poor households in Colombia
… outsidethe household for poor families living in small municipalities in Colombia. I findthat conflict significantly increases the amount of time children allocate to work. Both housework, for girls, and work outside the household, for boys, increase withGuerrilla attacks. However, the later …
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Evaluation of Introducing Technologies to Bridge Inspection and Maintenance in Japan
… are summarized in the following: Interviews • Small municipalities have more issues than large ones, such as lack of budget, technical personnel, and skills and experience. • The identified needs are increased budget, improved efficiency, improved quality, and a safer work environment. …
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The incidence of incremental budgeting in a small municipality
… the argument that incremental budgeting in small municipalities is inevitable. A number of factors that affect the substance of public policy decisions are seen to cause this result. Constraints on making city government-initiated and controlled budgetary changes are so numerous and …
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Desired outcomes, unexpected processes : two stories of sanitation maintenance in Erode tenements, India
A central challenge facing municipalities in developing countries is the successful maintenance of sanitation services for their urban poor. Not only are municipalities struggling to cope with increased sanitation coverage to their urban poor, but the challenge of successful sanitation delivery is …
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Le unioni di comuni e l'erogazione dei servizi in forma associata negli enti locali
… resources are even more scarce and insufficient. Small municipalities have greater difficulties in guaranteeing suitable levels of efficiency in the use of the resources and effectiveness in providing services. To solve this problem different policies with the objective to provide services in a …
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Substitution effect through fiscal transfers?! : incidence of the Peruvian property tax
… effect in the majority of the assessed municipalities. While most theories are modeling governments as tax-maximizers (Leviathan) or as being prone to fiscal laziness, this investigation shows that mayors react to a whole set of incentives. Most mayors react rational and rather …