Die kreisangehörigen Gemeinden, Kreisfreien Städte und Landkreise im Freistaat Sachsen müssen die Ausgaben, die bei der Erfüllung eigener sowie ihnen übertragener Aufgaben entstehen, selbst tragen. Dazu erhalten sie Zuweisungen vom Land, die eine Ergänzung zu den eigenen Einnahmen...

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Local Public Finance in China:An Overview -- Local Expenditures -- Chapter 2: Assessing the Assignment of Expenditure Responsibilities -- Chapter 3: Fiscal Decentralization, Infrastructure Financing, and Regional Disparity...

Chicago and New York share similar backgrounds but have had strikingly different fates. Tracing their fortunes from the 1930s to the present day, Ester R. Fuchs examines key policy decisions which have influenced the political structures of these cities and guided them into, or clear of, periods...

This volume addresses the issues of financing urban growth of the African continent -- which has the highest urban growth rate on the planet -- in the next decades. Considerable investment will be needed to sustain this level of growth and to clear up accumulated backlogs. At the same time,...

Cover -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- A: Aggregate Trends in Public Finances -- B: Key Public Finance Initiatives of the Third Plenum -- C: ADB's Suggestions on Local Government Financing -- D: ADB's Suggestions on Budget Improvements -- E: ADB's Suggestions on Tax Reform -- F:...

Cover -- Title Page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- The Importance of Municipal Finance -- Chapter 1: Municipal Revenue Options in a Time of Financial Crisis -- Chapter 2: Financing Cities -- Intergovernmental Transfers and Municipal Fiscal Structures -- Chapter 3: Intergovernmental Transfers to Local...

Intro -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- 1. How political institutions, history and experience affect government budgeting processes and ways of achieving ‘value for money’ -- 2. Government budgeting and the quest for value-for-money outcomes in...

In fiscal year 1981-82, state and local government spending actually exceeded federal nondefense spending. However, past research in public finance has focused on federal spending and policies and paid little attention to the economic problems of state and local governments. Studies in State and...