The potential impact of reforms to the essential parameters of the council tax [PDF]
Council Tax was introduced in Britain in 1993 and represents a unique international property tax. There is a growing belief that it is time to reform the number and structure of council tax bands but such views have a minimal empirical base. This paper
Beaumont M. S. +22 more
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The contribution focuses on the role of cities in the implementation of the so-called Green Deal, the ambitious program proposed by the European Commission, in accordance with the objectives set by the Paris Agreements, to implement the use of clean ...
Giovanni Messina
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Elected Mayors: Leading Locally? [PDF]
The directly elected executive mayor was introduced to England a decade ago. Drawing inspiration from European and American experience, the elected mayor appealed to both New Labour and Conservative commentators in offering a solution to perceived ...
[DoE] Department of the Environment +24 more
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The Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance is a research initiative in Canada whose mission is to promote the synthesis, dissemination, and integration of research results into health care and public health decision-making and ...
Carole Lunny +30 more
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Understanding European cross-border cooperation: a framework for analysis [PDF]
European integration has had a dual impact on border regions. On the one hand, borders were physically dismantled across most of the EU’s internal territory.
Aron R. +15 more
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Regional reports for the subnational monitoring of measles elimination in Italy and the identification of local barriers to the attainment of the elimination goal [PDF]
Although most countries in the WHO European Region were verified in 2017 as having interrupted endemic measles transmission, nine countries were still endemic. Among these, Italy accounted for the second highest number of measles cases reported in Europe
Adamo, Giovanna +9 more
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Still the Committee of ‘Legislative Regions’? On Heterogeneity, Representation and Functionality of the Committee of the Regions after 2004 [PDF]
This article attempts to draw the picture of the Committee of the Regions after Treaty of Lisbon and the 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union. The Committee of the Regions has received several new legal tools to influence EU decision taking, such as an increase in mandatory consultation rights and for the first time locus standi before the ...
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A Quarter-Century Activity of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union
The Committee of the Regions was established on the basis of the Maastricht Treaty of 7 February 1992, and began operating in March 1994. It consists of representatives of regional and local authorities who have obtained electoral mandates from the ...
Anna Przyborowska-Klimczak
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The Overseas Experience of Audit Committee and Audit Fees: Empirical Evidence from China
The complexity of audit committee experience, including the overseas experience, has an important impact on corporate governance. In this paper, we study the impact of the overseas experiences of the members of audit committee on audit fees.
Chengai Li, Lin Pan, Meilan Chen
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Assessing the competitiveness of Kazakhstan regions: creating an index [PDF]
Today there is no single universally accepted method for assessing the competitiveness of the country’s regions. For this reason, the research created a methodology for assessing competitiveness at the regional level for Kazakhstan.
Zhidebekkyzy Aknur +2 more
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