Abstract This research is related to the Statistics of Riau Province, which noted that poverty rate has increased from year in Rokan Hulu Regency. Poverty afflicts 74.73 thousand people responsibility state, including regional government. The purpose this study was determine strategy government preparing Regional Government Budget Regency completing mission. type a qualitative with an empirical...

Public policy decisions are increasingly made by regional governance efforts that involve diverse decision makers from multiple government units within a geographic region. These decision-making bodies face competing pressures to represent regional and local interests. We study how decision makers balance preferences for regionalism and localism within metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs)...

Regional inequality is severe in China since regional development is uneven due to various initial conditions and government policies. We employ unit root tests allowing for structural breaks to alternative inequality measures from 1952 to 2000. Empirical results indicate that (1) the regional inequality is trend stationary with structural breaks rather than follow a random walk. Thus, ignoring...

The democratization that took place in Japan over the latter half of the twentieth century led to local governments achieving a degree of autonomy that allowed them to manage aspects of public policy in such areas as regional development, welfare, environmental development, and government information disclosure. As these local authorities increasingly became active players in the policymaking p...

Adequate numbers of dental, medical and allied health professionals in rural and regional areas of NSW are vital for the health of these populations and supporting local community structures and economies. Well-documented shortages of health professionals are a major social and political issue in rural and regional communities and this workforce shortfall is recognised by both the NSW Governmen...

The paper elucidates the relationship between housing tenure, regional mobility and unemployment. It develops a model that can explain the paradoxical empirical regularity that higher owner occupation rates are associated with higher levels of unemployment although homeowners tend to be unemployed less often. The choice of housing tenure affects moving costs and thereby regional mobility and un...

This article aims to evaluate the impact of a regional SME IP support programme in France led by the INPI (National Institute of IP) and the Lorraine regional government. The panel includes 150 regional SMEs. The data were collected through the use of the AIDA approach and a data analysis was carried out, including principal components analysis (PCA) and a hierarchical ascending classification ...