by rpafdaccess | Sep 27, 2024 | Japan, Municipal merger, Remote-sensing data, Urban-rural divide
Author: Steve PICKERING, Seiki TANAKA, Kyohei YAMADA How are resources distributed when administrative units merge? We take advantage of recent, large-scale municipal mergers in Japan to systematically study the impact of municipal mergers within merged municipalities...
by rpafdaccess | Sep 27, 2024 | Financial distress, Local government, Municipal merger
Author: Mkhululi NCUBE, Jabulile MONNAKGOTLA The majority of South African municipalities facing the challenges of unemployment, poverty and weak infrastructure are in rural areas. To fulfil their mandate, they depend significantly on financial transfers. This is...
by rpafdaccess | Sep 27, 2024 | Financial distress, Local government, Local statecraft
Author: Andy PIKE The UK government reduced expenditure and introduced local financial self-sufficiency in pursuing austerity after the 2008 crash, forcing local governments in England to find savings and new income sources to close funding gaps. As new financial...
by rpafdaccess | Sep 27, 2024 | Financial distress, Municipal debt
Author: David SCHLEICHER In a Bad State provides the first comprehensive historical and theoretical analysis of how the federal government has addressed subnational debt crises. Tracing the long history of state and local borrowing, David Schleicher argues that...
by rpafdaccess | Sep 27, 2024 | Insolvency, Local public entities
Author: Laura N COORDES, Yseult MARIQUE, Eugenio VACCARI The treatment of local public entities in distress is a largely domestic, even parochial area of law. The rules in this area are largely unaffected by the influence of principles developed in other areas of law,...
