e-business and ended by e-government. Firms and consumers use internet to provide information and perform many of their … through e-government. In Spain in order to achieve the optimal technological level, municipalities and Autonomous Communities … (AC), have used financial aid from the Spanish Central Government and European Union institutions. This paper examines the …

We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model … further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect … of democracy on institutional quality is increasing in people's human capital. Using a new panel data set, covering 140 …

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 each government body has its specific obligations within the system … central government. In general, the analysis demonstrates that public provision of services in Brazil is highly heterogeneous …