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Brazil has 5.570 cities politically independent and yet entitled to manage urban land, no matter their technical or financial resources for that. Although informal land tenure is commonly associated to major metropolitan areas in Brazil, recent urbanization processes of cities inward the country's territory has led to informal land occupation of entire central districts. Informality is defined, in...
This paper presents results about the use and barriers that face free and open source software in the local governments in Costa Rica. Through an electronic survey, information was gathered from such governments, allowing to make a diagnostic of the situation.
As an informal institution, ideology can reduce transaction costs and stimulate economic growth during economic development. In the institutional transformation, ideology helps to promote mutual transformation and development of formal and informal institutions. The achievements of Chinese economic growth and institutional transformation owe to ideological construction of the development outlook centered...
Housing security is one of the main content of public services. According to performance every area of our country, the way and level of housing security has nothing in common with each other. In this paper, the factor analysis model is established to identify the key factors of the level of urban housing security. And then, cluster analysis model is constructed to research the regional difference...
While enjoying rapid economic development, China has been facing increasingly severe water scarcity. One objective of many local governments is to become a `water-saving city'. In order to achieve this objective, local governments in China require an efficient method to structurally analyze their water quantity and water quality problems. Based on the classical American policy analysis approach, we...
Based on statistics data from 1987 to 2007 in China, this paper, using spatial panel data model, has conducted an empirical study of the influence factors on finance competition of local governments to foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. The results show that tax competition and expense competition, two widely-used finance competition tools for absorbing FDI, have different promotion to FDI inflows...
This article sets out to probe into the process and mechanism for government's administrative service quality to influence public satisfaction, government reputation and public trust. It also explores the relationship among satisfaction, government reputation and public trust. Extant studies have confirmed the six dimensions of public-perceived administrative service quality, i.e., convenience, responsiveness,...
Using foreign direct investment in the domestic competition is a common economic phenomenon for local governments. In order to attract foreign investment, local governments provide a variety of preferential policies for foreign investors. For this phenomenon, some Chinese scholars agree while some criticize it. This paper firstly uses Game Theory to analyze the behavior of local governments to attract...
Under the background of global economic crisis, more and more local governments regard city marketing as a significant mode for urban development so as to strengthen urban competitiveness for more external development resources. However, since the social economic system of China is currently in a transitional period, decentralization, marketization and globalization urge the local governments to bear...
Web 2.0 refers to various networked applications utilizing technologies such as application mashups, content syndication, video casts, wikis, blogs, social networking, user tagging, social bookmarks and content and service rating. Such technologies are designed to reach or attract a greater electronic user audience, thereby increasing the efficiency of e-government applications. The potential of these...
The lack of effective policy and law enforcement is a serious and pervasive problem in China and environmental protection is particularly affected. Low SO2 removal and operation rates at SO2 scrubbers were of specific interests of this paper. Through active capacity building and mobilization of local governments, significant progress was achieved with a new policy of desulfurized electricity price...
To prepare for the event of bioterrorism, which could spread contagious disease such as anthrax, plague, small-pox, or tularemia to public, local governments in the United States are required have a plan for dispensing medical supplies such as vaccines and antibiotics to general public. The mass prophylaxis would need to cover millions of people in large cities in a short period of time. The distribution...
This paper analyzes capital allocation efficiency(CAE) of overall, domestic, and foreign capitals of manufacturing industry in China's different areas from March 2000 to August 2006 by Jeffrey Wurgler's thought and panel data model of overall and domestic data of 30 areas and foreign data of 29 areas, with a conclusion that CAE of foreign capital is obviously higher than that of domestic capital in...
Many local governments have been actively promoting implementation of their services and information systems in various ways. The main issues of this approach are "how e-local governments can manage effectively" and "be more citizen-oriented". In this paper, focusing on the latter, we surveyed their administrative services and channels to improve citizen satisfaction with CiRM...
The thesis focuses on studying the local governments' behavior based on the product market and studying how local governments improve the competitiveness of the cycle agriculture and promote its development in the region by influencing the farming producers' operating environment. By combining the farming households' Cournot equilibrium, agricultural products processing enterprises' Bertrand equilibrium...
Recently, the u-City market in Korea has increased dramatically due to the change of urban development paradigm. Not only the primary local governments but also the major cities are ready for the u-City project. In this research, u-City construction tendency and the schemata to realize the u-City in new towns like Company Cities and Innovative Cities are examined. The way to the u-City activation...
With the gradually implementation of the strategy of revitalizing the Northeast Old Industrial Base, the propelling role played by the investment environment for the Northeast economic growth becomes more important. As the investors always make the analysis of the actual condition of the investment district before their investment, local governments, in order to attract foreign funds, should go into...
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