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This study present a fiscal transfer scheme in two-tiers governmental system in a nation consisting of a national government and municipalities. A benevolent national government tries to maximize Benthamitie social welfare considering voluntary reorganization of municipalities. For achieving the purpose, the national government offers a different amount of fiscal transfer to each combination of municipal...
Structured dialogue can be defined as communication between the decision makers — government units (local, regional, national, European) — and citizens who act personally or through different organizations, such as institutions, enterprises, associations (non-governmental organizations, NGOs) or groups. The main focus of this paper is determine importance of ICT in that process. Paper contain presentation...
The successfulness of poverty alleviation programs depends on the accuracy of poverty data. The government needs to collect poverty data and analyze them to determine which poverty alleviation programs should be delivered to. A data collection process is often done by conducting a survey that consists of 14 survey variables. However, raw data collected from surveys are not useful if they are presented...
This study aims to problematize the issue of government transparency in federative states. As the Brazilian case is analyzed, it also approaches the question of territorial heterogeneity and its effects. Methodology consisted of comparative analysis of the transparency indexes among the three different spheres of government: municipalities, states and central government. Observation of 125 public...
Aim of this paper is to propose a methodology to assess the efficiency of a health unit in the delivery of hospitalization services. This task is accomplished integrating the hospital bed management indicators that provides an overall description of the use of beds by health structures with indicators of the complexity of the cases treated by the structure as well as its performance. This analysis...
High purity germanium detector (HPGe) was employed to assess radionuclide contents of 238U, 40K and 232Th in soils obtained from Omala, Kogi State, Nigeria. The activities measured vary from 9.0 to 82.2, 12.3 to 114.86 and below detector limit (BDL) and 349.0 Bq Kg−1 in 238U, 232Th and 40K respectively. Highest activities for the three radionuclides were consistently obtained from soil samples got...
Local government's debt is now highly concerned by all levels of governments, it relates to the safety of China's economy, the research discusses the early warning of the local government's debt risk, It not only has theoretical significance but also has much more practical value. Based on the index selection of local government's debt risk and determination of risk range, We build early warning model...
The purpose of the present study is to evaluate local e-government initiatives in Greece from a citizens' perspective. Towards this end, an instrument was developed that contained 14 indices and assessed citizens' perceived importance of e-government as well as e-democracy features incorporated in municipal portals. Results indicate that Greek citizens are not ready to move forward with the adoption...
E-Government implementation has many benefits and significant impact such as transparency, saving cost, improving productivity, quality of public services and competitive advantage in information era nowadays [1][2]. Even significant impact and benefits could be obtained but in fact, most of e-Government project was failed. Based on research survey [3], the failure was very high about 85% and project...
With the accelerated process of economic globalization, inter-regional linkages are becoming closer, exchanges become more frequent, spill over effects of public services are increasing day by day. In this paper, the author analyzes the level of public services in the provinces spatial correlation by using the theory of spatial economics. The results indicate that the level of the supply of public...
Bringing the concept of public satisfaction into government performance evaluation is the objective requirement of democratic politics, which involves complex psychological evaluation models and has opened a new area in China. Drawing on the classic structure of satisfaction, a theoretical model is built for the evaluation of public satisfaction of domestic local government's overall performance....
China's government performance evaluation has achieved great success, while it still has the deviation between evaluation result and practical situation. Based on the former research, the paper categorizes the influencing factors on government performance evaluation results deviation in China and analysis the cause and feature of all kinds of deviations in order to provide reference for improving...
Local government's public service quality management performance has four fuzziness features: the complexity of performance structure, the non-marketing output of service quality, the non-discreteness of management performance, the uncertain boundary of management performance. So the fuzzy comprehensive model based on the fuzzy mathematics theory becomes the realistic choice to measure its performance...
Social harmony and equitable development are fundamentals of stable development of the society. As an important policy instrument of macro-regulation of the government, public expenditures embody the function scope of the government and thus play a great role in promoting social equity. In this paper, Gini coefficient and rural-urban income disparity are chosen as the indicators to measure social...
Urban agglomeration has become an important carrier in the regional economic development. The leading industry and advantage industry support ability is an important source of promoting comprehensive competitiveness. To strengthen the construction of industry agglomeration, we must adopt powerful measures to support in concept changing, mechanism formation, industrial restructuring, county economy...
Based on the analysis and summary of e-government development theory and the theory of government performance evaluation, firstly determine the value orientation of government performance evaluation based on e-government platform; Secondly, draw on the analysis of Balanced Scorecard theory and discuss the index dimensionality of government performance evaluation based on e-government platform; Thirdly,...
The result of empirical study indicates that the jurisdictional disparity of fiscal capacity in China has been enlarged in the recent years although the total amount of central government grant has increased with the development of economy. The defects of intergovernmental transfer system that is a main means of equalization contribute to this phenomenon. It is necessary to construct an equalization...
The development of Shenyang's real estate market is healthy, stable and sustainable in recent years and has contributed much to the development of Shenyang's economy. However, there is still lacking of index system that reflects the situation of Shenyang's real estate market. According to the feature of real estate price indexes in China and different cities and through the price analysis to housing...
At present in China, local governments have tried various financing approaches. This paper uses principal component analysis to assess the efficiencies of four financing methods which are commonly used by the local governments. The result shows that the efficiency of local bonds financing is higher than that of land financing, platform financing and financial allocation by the central. Platform financing...
A set of indicator screening method on evaluation index system of new socialist countryside (NSC) is established and its rationality was tested in this paper. First, a preliminary index system containing 44 indicators was put forward concerning farmer, agricultural and rural economic development. Then, combining with a series of subjective and objective indicator screening methods, such as fuzzy synthetic...
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