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Foreclosures and local government budgets

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014
Foreclosures have been shown to have a negative financial impact on borrowers, lenders, and neighbors. It has also been argued that they have important negative effects on the budgets of local governments, but there is scant evidence supporting this claim.
Keith R. Ihlanfeldt, Tom Mayock
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Local authority budgets 1981

Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Public Money, 1981
Local authorities in England and Wales drew up their budgets this year in a uniquely difficult situation. They had behind them a tough rate support grant settlement and Government plans for further cuts: ahead, the prospect of further grant penalties, or worse, if the overall budgets were not on target . . . How did they react?
Anthony Harrison, Graeme Lee
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Devolution of local budgets

Public Money & Management, 1989
Devolved management has been the recommended solution to many of the problems of centralised public bureaucracies, but what does it mean in practice? In particular, how much control should be retained at the centre and how much allocated to service managers?
Paul Hoggett, Glen Bramley
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Productivity Trends in Local Government Budgeting

Public Performance & Management Review, 2002
This article follows up on the authors’ 1988 rejoinder to the symposium “Budgeting for Improved Productivity,” which appeared in the spring 1987 issue of Public Productivity Review. Using data from a national survey of local government budget practitioners conducted in 1996, 10 years after the first article’s survey, the authors investigate trends in ...
Daniel E. O’Toole, Brian Stipak
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LOCAL BUDGETS: FORMATION CHALLENGES

EKONOMIKA I UPRAVLENIE: PROBLEMY, RESHENIYA
The article discusses the current challenges in the development of local budgets in the Russian Federation. Based on the analysis of current legislation, statistical data, and recommendations from relevant departments, key aspects of the budget process at the municipal level are considered. Special attention is paid to issues of uneven budget provision
Marina S. Gryazeva, Ekaterina Yu. Mezynko   +1 more
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Global budgets for local recommendations

Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Recommender systems, 2010
We present the design, implementation and evaluation of a new geotagging service, Gloe, that makes it easy to find, rate and recommend arbitrary on-line content in a mobile setting. The service automates the content search process by taking advantage of geographic and social context, while using crowdsourced expertise to present a personalized feed of ...
Thomas Sandholm, Hang Ung, Christina Aperjis, Bernardo A. Huberman   +3 more
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Volunteers Help Stretch Local Budgets

1985
Local governments have always used volunteers, especially in fire and rescue departments. But today, many local government officials are looking for and finding new opportunities to use volunteers to increase their organizations’ ability to provide services. This article shows how local officials can use volunteers, and gives suggestions and guidelines.
Valente, Maureen Godsey, Valente, Maureen Godsey   +1 more
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Local government budgeting - Croatia

2002
Local government budgeting ...
Bajo, Anto, Ott, Katarina
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Participatory Budgeting in Local Government

Public Performance & Management Review, 2011
Existing research indicates that meaningful, effective, and authentic citizen participation requires two-way dialogue between government and citizens. The question of what determines the likelihood that local government will provide two-way dialogue opportunities in the budgeting process has not been studied in the literature.
Yuguo Liao, Yahong Zhang
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