The services provided by local authorities such as education, recreation, gardening and public cleaning, and water and sewerage are usually defined as public goods that are intended to improve their residents’ quality of life. This paper helps local policy makers to achieve this goal by...

Children who come into care of Local Authorities are likely to have significantly poorer health statuses than other children. Foster carers play an increasingly important role as substitute families for such children, a valuable but scarce resource that is costly to recruit and retain. Despite...

The present case study focuses on the shortcomings and difficulties encountered in the management of projects in the environment protection area, respectively of integrated waste management systems, observed in similar projects, promoted simultaneously in five counties in Romania, counties...

The ongoing discussions of a city, where potential bidders for the concessions of on-street and off-street parking questioned separate bids procedures recalled our attention; in addition, willing to satisfy public demands the municipality planed to keep free spaces in the same area. In this...