Brazil has constitutionally adopted a Unified Health System (SUS) since 1988. SUS is designed so that central government, states and municipalities together offer public, free for all full health coverage. The complexity and territorial arrangement of SUS have been developed in such a way that...

German municipalities are expected to suffer from (often significant) population losses in the upcoming decades. We assess these local governments' vulnerability to the fiscal consequences of this demographic decline through two means (using a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of...

"In this updated compilation of the first edition of Privatization, it covers the implementation, reinvention, and contracting out that have transpired since then--not just the successes but also the failures. The lessons learned from the successes and failures gave birth to a new privatization...