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Elements of public asset management framework for local governments in developing countries

Hanis, Muhammad Hasbi; Trigunarsyah, Bambang; … - 2010

There is a widespread recognition to the need of better manage municipal property in most cities in the world. Structural problems across regional, state, and territorial governments that have legal powers to own and maintain real property are similar, regardless of the level of development of...

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Asset identification : addressing the climate change in public asset management process

Hanis, Muhammad Hasbi; Susilawati, Connie; … - 2011

developing countries’ local governments. In order to achieve its aims, this study employs a case study in Indonesia. This study … only discusses one medium size provincial government in Indonesia. The information is gathered through interviews of the … local government representatives in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia and document analysis provided by interview …

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Practice briefing : Is BOT the best financing model to procure infrastructure projects? A case study of the Hong Kong-Shuhai-Macau Bridge

Cheung, Esther; Chan, Albert - 2009

Abstract: Purpose – Several major infrastructure projects in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) have been delivered by the build-operate-transfer (BOT) model since the 1960s. Although the benefits of using BOT have been reported abundantly in the contemporary literature, some...

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Comparative assessment of characteristics influencing the industrial property markets in Sydney and Hong Kong

Susilawati, Connie; Morahan, Brigid; Yeung, Stanley - 2008

Industrial property is commonly located in a designated ‘industrial’ precinct. An industrial property has a specific design and a number of services to support industrial activities including manufacture, distribution and transportation. Although it has a unique characteristic, certain...

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Enhancing value for money in public private partnership projects : findings from a survey conducted in Hong Kong and Australia compared to findings from previous research in the UK

Cheung, Esther; Chan, Albert; Kajewski, Stephen L. - 2009

This paper studies the measures that enhance Value for Money (VFM) in PPP projects from the findings achieved in a questionnaire survey. The questionnaire survey was conducted in Hong Kong (also known as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region) and Australia, and is compared to the results...

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Implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in a major construction contracting organization in Hong Kong

Chan, Eric; Mills, Anthony - 2011

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to summarize the scope, methodology and main findings of a doctoral thesis about the implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in a major construction contracting organization in Hong Kong. This research is taken from a leadership and...

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Innovation in local government risk financing: lessons from the UK and Nordic experiences

Hood, John; Stein, William; Valkama, Pekka - 2010

Book abstract: Compared with coverage of organizational innovation, public sector financial innovation has tended to be neglected in the literature. When it has been considered, the strong focus of classical public finance for optimal taxation and tax types has overshadowed new and interesting...

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Tax complexity and fiscal illusion: An empirical evaluation on of the Heyndels and Smolders approach

Dollery, Brian E.; Worthington, Andrew C. - 1999

In a pioneering paper on the revenue-complexity hypothesis, Heyndels and Smolders (1995) demonstrate that the conventional employment of the Hirschman-Herfindal index (HHC) in the empirical analysis of fiscal illusion introduces an arbitrary restriction without theoretical foundation. They...

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An Empirical Analysis Of Productivity In Australian Local Government, 1993/94 TO 1995/96

Worthington, Andrew C.; Dollery, Brian E. - 2002

In this study the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in Australian local government is investigated using nonparametric frontier techniques. Employing Malmquist indices, productivity growth is decomposed into technical efficiency change and technological change for two...

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Measuring Efficiency in Local Government: An Analysis of New South Wales Municipalities’ Domestic Waste Management Function

Worthington, Andrew C.; Dollery, Brian E. - 2001

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to measure the technical and scale efficiency of the domestic waste management function in 103 New South Wales’ local governments. After allowance is made for nondiscretionary environmental factors which may affect the provision of these local public...

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