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Firms and Public Service Provision in Russia [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 This paper reports first results from a survey of 404 middle-sized and large manufacturing firms from 40 Russian regions in April-June 2003. We examine the extent of social service and infrastructure provision by the firms and the firms' assessment of the quality of public infrastructure and the regulatory environment.
Pertti Haaparanta +5 more
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Fiscal stress as a catalyst for public service provision in China: evidence from the VAT reform [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyLocal government responses to fiscal stress are crucial for ensuring public service provision, especially in times of fiscal tightening. Previous studies have shown inconsistent findings, often focusing on developed countries in Europe and the United ...
Xiaoshan Cai, Bin Zhang, Jin Yang
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Public Service Provision, User Fees, and Political Turmoil [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 Following an electoral dispute, the central highlands of the island of Madagascar were subjected to an economic blockade during the first half of 2002. After the blockade ended in June 2002, user fees for health services and school fees were progressively eliminated.
Marcel Fafchamps, Bart Minten
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The Organization of Public Service Provision [PDF]
Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2004 AbstractThis paper addresses the question of how the responsibility for the delivery of social services, including health, education, and welfare programs, should be divided between state and central governments. We combine a random voting model and the incomplete contracts paradigm to formalize the trade‐off between central and state responsibility ...
Billy Jack
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OFFERING SERVICES BASED ON DATA WAREHOUSE AS A NEW TREND IN THE WORK OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION [PDF]
STED Journal, 2022 The subject of the research is the analysis of services that should be offered by public administration toward legal entities and natural persons. We will suggest that it uses real-time intelligent IT systems based on data storage based on the data
Davor Radivojević +3 more
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The Consequences of the Austerity Policies for Public Services in the UK
Studies in Social Justice, 2021 This article examines the changing landscape of public service provision in the UK during austerity. Austerity is presented through the notions of retrenchment, decentralisation and shifts in governance.
Tania Arrieta Hernandez
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Innovation as a Tool to Improve Public Service Delivery: South African Government Perspective
Interdisciplinary Journal on Law, Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023 South African citizens are still facing problems of poor service provision in the local, provincial, and national governments after 28 years of democracy. The standard of public service provision and implementation in South Africa is deteriorating. It is
Xolani Thusi +2 more
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Scrutinizing local public service provision [PDF]
Public Money & Management, 2009 Set in the context of an expansion of scrutiny by local authorities of local service provision, this article explores the key challenges ahead for managers and politicians in this area of local governance. Drawing on an evaluation of the development of health scrutiny, it outlines the different types of activities health scrutiny committees are ...
Coleman, Anna +5 more
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Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023 This study’s purpose is to assess fiscal federalism’s effect on public service provision in Ethiopia. The study adopted an explanatory research design.
Million Adafre Bushashe +1 more
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Arm's Length Provision of Public Services [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 We analyze the economic consequences of strategic delegation of the right to decide between public or private provision of governmental service and/or the authority to negotiate and renegotiate with the chosen service provider. Our model encompass both bureaucratic delegation from a government to a privatization agency and electoral delegation from ...
Bennedsen, Morten, Schultz, Christian
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