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Ting, Siew King; Dollery, Brian; Villano, Rene - In: Urban Studies 51 (2014) 13, pp. 2899-2915

Municipal corporate centres not only perform multiple administrative functions, including supervision, monitoring and budgeting of the overall operation of local government, but also absorb significant resources. From a public policy perspective, it is thus important to determine whether...

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Scale and efficiency in the provision of local government services

Burridge, Mark - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 10 (2008) 1, pp. 99-107

This paper investigates the size of local authority fixed and variable costs and the extent of economies of scale and scope in the provision of local services. A flexible modelling framework is used which combines elements of both short and long run cost behaviour and allows returns to scale to...

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When will they ever learn? The financial implications of water 'regionalisation' for non-metropolitan New South Wales local councils

Dollery, Brian; Johnson, Andrew - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 4/5/6, pp. 301-319

state government should instead consider other methods of improving the efficiency of water and wastewater services. …

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Involvement of small and medium sized enterprises in the private realisation of public buildings

Heinecke, Bastian - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 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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Relationships Between Size of Schools and School Districts and the Cost of Education

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The Risks of Intuition: Size, Costs and Economies of Scale in Local Government

Callanan, Mark; Murphy, Ronan; Quinlivan, Aodh - In: The Economic and Social Review 45 (2014) 3, pp. 371-403

intrinsic efficiency value and can involve considerable transitional costs. Most local authority services appear to possess …

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Constraints to strengthening public sector accountability through civil society: the case of Morocco

Bergh, Sylvia I. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 4 (2009) 3/4, pp. 344-365

This paper discusses the extent to which civil society contributes to strengthening public sector accountability in Morocco. The main argument in this paper is that despite a few recent encouraging examples, civil society's role in strengthening public sector accountability remains limited at...

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Il governo della città: una riforma tradita

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A radical reform improved the government of towns and cities in Italy at the start of the 1990’s. Mayors were elected by citizens; they appointed their own executives and received «guides and checks» from Councils. That model had nevertheless already started to worsen at the end of the...

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Liberia; Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

Liberiaâ€™s Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy (iPRS) sets out the emerging process and framework for recovery and reconstruction in the context of post-conflict Liberia. The iPRSP sets out the national socio-economic context, the preparatory process, dimensions of the emerging policy,...

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Output complexity, environmental conditions, and the efficiency of municipalities

Balaguer-Coll, Maria; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 39 (2013) 3, pp. 303-324

Over the last few years, many studies have analyzed the efficiency of local governments in different countries. An … legal minimum and, consequently, might have an uncertain effect on efficiency when compared to other municipalities which … efficiency of municipalities is evaluated after splitting them into clusters according to various criteria (output mix …

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