Search results for "Local Government"

Asymmetric decentralisation, economic cycle, regional and local government’s borrowing in Spain

2014

This paper investigates the evolution of sub-central government borrowing in Spain over the period 1996–2011. The arguments and figures provided show that the intense process of political and fiscal decentralisation that took place over the 1990s and 2000s did not lead to higher debt ratios in terms of GDP at these tiers of government until 2007. Although a kind of overspending bias was in effect until the late 2000s, the paper shows that the evolution of GDP and tax revenues provided regional and local governments with enough resources to vigorously pursue their devolved public policy responsibilities and still keep their debt ratios under control. However, since 2008, when the world finan…

Decentralization and growth: what if the cross-jurisdiction approach had met a dead end?

2013

International audience; The relationship between decentralization and economic growth is generally studied from a perspective stressing universal or quasi-universal regularities across jurisdictions. That approach has generated many insights but seems to reach its limits. The paper explains why it allows contrasting positions with regard to the benefits of decentralization even among proponents of free and competitive markets. And it seems from the empirical literature that no robust and economically significant cross-jurisdiction relation between decentralization and economic performance or growth, except perhaps their independence, has been found. The absence of a relation valid across ju…

Public–private sector wage differentials and the business cycle

2013

Abstract This paper uses microeconomic data for the period from 1990 to 2004 to examine the relationship between public–private sector wage differentials and labour market conditions in Finland. The results show that the public sector wage premium is strongly counter-cyclical. On average, a 10 percent increase in the local unemployment rate increases the public–private sector wage gap by one percent. Separate analyses by government sector and quantiles of the distribution of wages reveal that it is local government workers and those working at lower skill levels who benefit more from increasing unemployment rate. The paper also exploits the longitudinal structure of the data to examine whet…

De la innovación social a la economía solidaria. Claves prácticas para el desarrollo de políticas públicas

2016

El presente artículo ahonda en la identificación de puntos en común entre la multitud de prácticas que constituyen lo que se conoce como economía social y solidaria (ESS) y el fomento de la innovación social como un reto actual para las políticas públicas. El objetivo es evaluar los modos en que las Administraciones pueden hacer hincapié en favor de la economía social y solidaria considerando su importancia estratégica para el desarrollo económico local. El texto combina la revisión de la literatura específica con la exposición de experiencias ubicadas en la provincia de Barcelona partiendo de un trabajo de campo desarrollado mediante entrevistas en profundidad con informadores privilegiado…

Introduction to Information Technology for Development Minitrack

2015

The papers in this minitrack take the discourse of how Information Technology (IT) applications enable development objectives to take place to a new level. The contributions from the papers in this minitrack illustrate the innovative ways in which IT applications can bring about improvements in the lives of people.

Quality and Transparency in VET: New Challenges for Public Administrations in Latvia

2014

Abstract The main problem discussed in the paper is the new challenges for public administration of vocational education and training (VET) due to innovations and globalization. Most of the attention in the paper is paid to the readiness of entrepreneurs jointly with municipalities to participate in the preparation of future qualified specialists. Co-operation among various educational establishments, the local government and the employers is crucial. A much neglected aspect still is the co-operation between VET and higher education (HE) institutions – which the authors see as a real driving force for the success of local partnerships to promote regional economic development with respective…

How Pioneering Managers Strive to Integrate Social Risk Management in Government Debt Collection

2019

This study explores risk management issues in local government-owned enterprises in accordance to the third wave of governance, organization and management logics of Public Administration: the Public Value approach. However, the coexistence between the emerging Public Value approach and the more traditional and consolidated ones is often difficult, also because of the resistance of shareholders who may not consider the management of system-level risks as a priority mission for their company. For this reason, we have analysed the strengths and weaknesses of the Traditional Approach and the New Public Management approach in the public sector management. The case study presented reveals some i…

An exploratory approach for benefits management in e-government: Insights from 48 Norwegian government funded projects

2008

Author's version of a chapter in Proceeding of 41th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Also available from the publisher at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2008.55 Efforts to improve governance and government functions through the use of information technology continue to draw considerable parts of the budgets of government agencies. To meet public and political demands for increased visibility of effects of e- Government investments, there is a trend to extend existing practices of evaluation towards more holistic management practices, commonly referred to as benefits management. However, benefits management practices and effects of such practices are poorly documented. Th…

Exploring the linkages between the management control systems package elements

2016

Barriers to open e-learning in public administrations

2016

Abstract This article presents a comparative study of the barriers to open e-learning in public administrations in Luxembourg, Germany, Montenegro and Ireland. It discusses the current state of open e-learning of public administration employees at the local government level and derives the barriers to such learning. This paper's main contribution is its presentation of an empirical set of barriers in the four European countries. The results allow informed assumptions about which barriers will arise in the forthcoming use of open-source e-learning technology, particularly open educational resources as means of learning. Furthermore, this study offers a contextualised barrier framework that a…