Local Government Expenditures on Care Services vs. Demographic Changes in Poland

Financing health services in Poland: new evidence on private expenditures.

This paper estimates total expenditure on health care in Poland in 1994 and provides new evidence on high levels of private spending on health care. The analysis shows that health care expenditures in Poland are higher than has usually been maintained, and are comparable with the prevailing levels in many other European countries. Private expenditure on health is a significant proportion of tot...

Government Structure and Local Public Expenditures*

The relationship between local government structure and expenditure has received considerable attention, yet there is little consensus on how the features of representative government affect local expenditure decisions. The sole exception is city council size, which has consistently been found to have a positive and significant impact on expenditure. Previous results rely on cross-sectional est...

Expenditures and Receipts in State and Local Government Finances: Reply

Chowdhury (1988) adopts an alternative technique to test for causality between expenditures and receipts of state and local governments and claims that he obtains results that are different from those reported in our 1987 paper (Marlow and Manage, 1987). We disagree with many of his criticisms. In this reply, we argue that he misinterprets our results and policy implications and that his result...

Tuberculosis and Local Health Department Expenditures on Tuberculosis Services

Shared Services in Irish Local Government

This paper investigates the demand for ICT shared services in Irish local government, why has the take-up to date been so limited and what the barriers to adoption are historically and are today. The research shows that there is an apparent large demand for ICT shared services from all local authorities, but that in practice take-up is low and there is a strong preference for local solutions ov...