Government contracting is crucial for defining the quality of government and public services because it amounts to about 29% spending. However, regional indicators, especially spending, are largely missing. We assess spending by transparency, competition, efficiency corruption using a novel database 4 million contracts from EU-28 between 2006 2015. find that associated with gross domestic produ...

Accurate revenue prediction is a key factor for the reliable determination of investment part entire regional and local budgets, particularly during economic downturns fiscal uncertainty. An unexpected decline in requires reduction capital expenditures forces government to find additional sources close budget gaps. Current studies indicate that forecasts often underpredict use available informa...

The decline of regional Australia in terms of wealth and population during the two decades since 1980 has compelled the Federal Government to intervene. In 1997 the Australian Federal Government devoted in excess of $A460 million to a grant award scheme called the Regional Telecommunication Infrastructure Fund (RTIF) in which regional communities identified local telecommunication problems and ...

During the economic and political changes that took place in Europe and in Romania after 1989, it was imposed and also made important steps in the foundation of a new concept and a new regional development policy. Regional development policy in Romania is now an important component of the Government Program.

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This paper aims to develop and present a framework that enables the creation and deployment of regional capacity-building networks in e-government. To accomplish this goal, a focus group is used for the creation of real InterAmerican Network Capacity-Building in e-government. The andings from this research show that speciac hierarchical and professional proales within public administration dese...

On 7 and 14 November 2010, Greece held its first elections for the regional level of representation. The regional elections, which were held concurrently with municipal elections across the country, were the result of the latest local government reforms. In 1986, the governing Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) created 13 administrative regions on top of the 54 prefectures. These administra...