The Administrative Costs of Local Government Property-Based User Charges and Their Regressivity [PDF]
Central European Public Administration Review, 2011 The paper measures the administrative costs (assessment and collection costs) of immovable property user charges in local governments in Croatia. This study represents a small scale survey comprising mostly small local governments.
Helena Blažić +2 more
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Fees and user charges in large Polish cities
Studia Regionalne i Lokalne, 2014 The aim of this article is to identify the role of fees and user charges in the budgets of large cities (cities with county status) and policies of these entities in this regard. To achieve this goal, the article reviews the research on the importance of
Marcin Będzieszak
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Perceived Barriers to Utilizing Maternal and Neonatal Health Services in Contracted-Out Versus Government-Managed Health Facilities in the Rural Districts of Pakistan [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015 Background A number of developing countries have contracted out public health facilities to the Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in order to improve service utilization.
Atif Riaz +2 more
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Charging for Local Social Services: the Case of Estonia
Eesti Majanduspoliitilised Väitlused, 2012 Increasing fiscal pressure has forced local governments to seek new sources of autonomous revenues for financing public services. Charging users of social services has been modest, but with an aging society and growing social costs, this option needs to ...
Katrin Pihor, Kadi Timpmann
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Sensitivity to user mischaracterizations in electric vehicle charging
Systems & Control Letters, 2023 In this paper, we consider electric vehicle charging facilities that offer various levels of service for varying prices such that rational users choose a level of service that minimizes the total cost to themselves including an opportunity cost that incorporates users' value of time.
Cesar Santoyo +2 more
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User Perspectives of Diet-Tracking Apps: Reviews Content Analysis and Topic Modeling
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021 BackgroundThe availability and use of mobile apps in health and nutrition management are increasing. Ease of access and user friendliness make diet-tracking apps an important ally in their users’ efforts to lose and manage weight.
Zečević, Mila +4 more
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Renewable Electricity Pricing Mechanism Formation Mechanism Model Prediction
Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2016 This paper mainly peak and valley electric charges price periods division and peak and valley electric charges determine optimized research established model peak and valley electric charges valley periods division and user response.
Q. Cai, L. Le
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Maintaining quality of health services after abolition of user fees: A Uganda case study
BMC Health Services Research, 2008 Background It has been argued that quality improvements that result from user charges reduce their negative impact on utilization especially of the poor.
Okuonzi Sam A +5 more
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Medium voltage consumers’ cost evaluation connected to a micro-grid PV system
Energy Reports, 2022 The increase in the deployment of photovoltaic systems has brought a change to the national grid and directly influences the energy charges applied by the utilities. Different types of tariffs are applied to consumers for electrical energy. These tariffs
Boitumelo Mokoena +2 more
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Alternate Local Revenue Sources: User Charges [PDF]
, 1982 User charges were the second most important source of local government own source revenue in 1977. Local governments in 1977 collected $19 billion in user charges, such as admission fees. This represented 16 percent of total revenue from own sources. The
Judith N. Collins
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