Municipal amalgamation is often seen as one way to ensure that municipalities are large enough to be financially and … paper evaluates the extent to which municipal amalgamation in Toronto, Canada’s largest city, in 1998 achieved the … time. The amalgamation probably increased the financial viability of at least the smaller and poorer municipalities in the …

This study considers the factors behind municipality amalgamation in Japan from fiscal year 1999 to 2005 by using event … government's carrot-and-stick policy strongly influenced municipality amalgamation for those with high ratios of inter …-governmental grants to total revenue. Moreover, the amalgamation of neighboring municipalities became a trigger for other municipalities …