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Involvement of small and medium sized enterprises in the private realisation of public buildings
Heinecke, Bastian - 2002
This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...
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Federal, state, and local governments: Evaluating their separate roles in US growth
Higgins, Matthew J.; Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel - 2008
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
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Preferences and the level of satisfaction from the provision of insurance services in activity of the LGUs on a municipal level in Podkarpackie voivodship
Skica, Tomasz; Rodzinka, Jacek - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 8 (2012) 3, pp. 76-84
The article is based on the results of author's study survey conducted on a representative sample of municipalities of Podkarpackie voivodship. Based on the results of research, the article will present both the current state of insurance in local government units (LGUs) of the municipal level,...
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Tagum City: Development at the Crossroads
Gerochi, Hope - 2004
Population processes and outcomes (in this case, urbanization) influences and changes the development of an area and vice versa. In the case of Tagum City, its growing economy is presumed to be attracting considerable movement of people which proves to present both opportunities and challenges...
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Donor assistance and urban service delivery in Africa
Stren, Richard - 2012
Sub-Saharan African cities have been growing at historically unprecedented rates. Since the early 1970s, they have welcomed international assistance involving a succession of major thematic objectives. The main agency involved in urban assistance has been the World Bank. But as its goals have...
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Gender Controlling in der Kommunalverwaltung
Rösener, Anke; Damkowski, Wulf - 2004
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Evaluation der DOPPIK-Einführung in den Kommunen des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
Weiß, Jens (contributor) - 2014
In dem vorliegenden Evaluationsbericht wird der Stand der Doppik-Einführung in den 133 betroffenen Gebietskörperschaften Sachsen-Anhalts untersucht. Hierzu wurden eine quantitative Online-Befragung, vertiefende Interviews und weitere Analysen durchgeführt. Die flächendeckende Einführung der...
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The Balanced Scorecard - Dinosaur or Giant?
Schulke, Arne - 2020
No concept of corporate management has spread as quickly in global business practice as the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton. This discussion paper examines its origins, theoretical foundation, practical distribution and key points of criticism in the literature a...
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Far-Right Local Governments and Civil Society: Findings from France and Italy
Kim, Seongcheol - In: Political Studies Review, OnlineFirst Articles, pp. --
research project in order to present two case studies of far-right local governments in small industrial towns in France and …
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Warum hat "Marianne" so viele Diener? Zum Wachstum des französischen öffentlichen Dienstes entgegen internationalen Trends
Kroos, Daniela - 2010
Dienstes in Frankreich am ehesten von außen zu erwarten sind, d.h. vom kommunalen Rand des öffentlichen Dienstes oder aus … France was compensated for by a qualitative change of employment relationships. The findings of this endeavour are ambivalent … management. It can be concluded that reforms of public employment in France are most likely to be inspired from the outside, i …
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