Background: After revenue-sharing system reform, the proportion of tax refund in fiscal transfer payments continued to decline, and the proportion of categorical grant and condition grant is increased. The paper studies how transfer payment structure effect fiscal efficiency from the perspective of local financial revenue structure. Methods: This paper use the SE-DEA model to measures the finan...

In China, local governments have actively contributed to the growth of new firms. In Russia, local governments have typically stood in the way, be it through taxation, regulation, or corruption. We argue that the difference can be traced to lies in the degree of political centralization present in China, but not in Russia. In China the central government has been strong and disciplined enough t...

Article 47 of the new EU Directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes requires national governments to contribute to the development and promotion of alternative methods. A recent survey of EU member states found that reported funding of alternative (3Rs) methods totalled € 18.7 million in 2013, provided by only seven countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finla...

The governments of nearly all industrialised countries use subsidies to support the economic development of specific sectors or regions with high rates of unemployment. Conventional economic wisdom would suggest that the most efficient way to support these regions or sectors is to pay employment subsidies. We present evidence showing that capital subsidies are empirically much more important th...

This paper explores how e-government can be understood in the context of business administration. An attempt is made to identify the greatest problems that governments will have to face with respect to the introduction of egovernment, and what kind of – if any – contribution the disciplines of business administration and the New Public Management (NPM) can make to resolve these problems. To ach...

It is clear that Australia has been innovative and led the world recently in casemix development and application. That is why other countries are using the Australian system. Involvement by federal and state governments, administrators and clinicians has led to a system broadly accepted as a lexicon for acute hospital admission classification and a means of payment. This has been a major achiev...

The government's call for “indigenous innovation” has led to significant development in China's science, technology innovation policy and building collaborative relations between research institutions and industry in China. Despite the scale of central government funding for R&D and various government-initiated programmes to stimulate knowledge generation significant challenges remain. Some of ...

This chapter tackles with some basic questions about eGovernment with a regional perspective: is it growing the importance of regional governments in the information age political environment? Is there a specific regional administrative modernization agenda? Which institutional factors shape regional electronic public administration developments? There is an increasing importance of regional go...