Disaster and Recovery: The Public and Private Sectors in the Aftermath of the 1906 Earthquake in San Francisco [PDF]
A severe earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 severed electrical and gas lines and collapsed chimneys. Fires resulted, burning for four days over 2800 acres. The commercial and residential center of the city was destroyed.
Douglas Coate
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Violence Control at the Municipal Level [PDF]
This document is one of a series of technical notes that describe the nature and magnitude of violence in the region, its causes and effects, and how it can be prevented and controlled.
Rodrigo Guerrero
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MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT AS AN AREA OF COLLOBORATION BETWEEN FEDERAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
RUDN Journal of Public Administration, 2014 Local governments are one of the institutions of democracy that form a basis of a civil society. Their political importance is beyond any doubt. At present, it is critical to address the problem of the optimization of low-level interactions between state
Yu A Zubarev, M Yu Zubarev
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Optimal Density for Municipal Revenues [PDF]
The distribution of lot sizes and associated improvements affect property values. Hence, zoning affects municipal property tax revenues. If optimal lot size is inconsistent with the targeted zoning density in a community, municipal revenue can be ...
Adelaja, Adesoji O., Chaudhuri, Malika
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The role and importance of social technologies in the modern state and municipal government [PDF]
, 2014 В данной статье рассматриваются социальные технологии в современном государственном и муниципальном управлении как важнейший фактор эффективного государственного управления.In the article the social technology in the modern state and municipal government
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The role of municipal authorities [PDF]
Forced Migration Review, 2010 Municipal authorities present the most immediate interfacebetween a government and its citizens. If the rights of IDPs are tobe upheld and their needs addressed, more attention needs to bepaid to the municipal level of government.
Elizabeth Ferris
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Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Challenges in Latin America for the Next Decade [PDF]
, 2011 A decade after a 1999 World Bank-sponsored meeting of Latin American water and sanitation experts, there has been progress in rural sanitation in that region.
Glenn Pearce-Oroz
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Assessing and Explaining the Relative Efficiency of Local Government: Evidence for Portuguese Municipalities [PDF]
In this paper we measure the relative efficiency of Portuguese local municipalities in a non-parametric framework approach using Data Envelopment Analysis.
António Afonso, Sónia Fernandes
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, 1980 This is an edited transcript of remarks made by John C. Burton in response to Thomas S. Currier\u27s paper Mandating Disclosure in Municipal Securities Issues: Proposed New York Legislation. The remarks focus on the importance of the federal government
Burton, John C.
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Environment, Health and Wealth: Towards an Analysis of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria [PDF]
, 2012 The management of municipal solid waste is one of the challenges facing the developing countries because governments, institutions, and private sectors have given solid waste management low priority and ignoring the implication it has on the general ...
Akinyinka , M.O., Olukanni, D. O.
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