Abstract Litigation involving climate change is on the increase both domestically and internationally Supreme Court's judgment in Friends of Earth Ltd joins that list. While it was not as directly concerned with implications as, perhaps, recent case law from Netherlands or Australia, has significant including terms future litigation human rights challenges based change. Three aspects particular...

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This study examines the impact of public spending on human development in Asian countries, considering both investment and current spending. The empirical method is a system-GMM, using dataset 35 countries collected from 2005 to 2014 by Development Bank (ADB) United Nations Programme (UNDP). findings indicated that government spending, had effects index, but these are not linear. Depending type...

The purpose of this empirical study is to analyse the level of maturity of e-government in Victorian local governments. The study will help to determine the extent to which Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) help local governments to provide citizens with more transparent and advanced services and to close the gap between the government and its citizens. Analysis of 30 local gove...

The global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 has called into question the fiscal sustainability and solvency of several US state governments. As more of these states approach insolvency, discussion of a federal bailout has increased. As a result, we develop and use a model that accurately forecasts sovereign credit ratings and apply it to the fifty states to determine a stand alone credit ratin...

This study attempts to investigate the effect of oil returns and external debt on the government expenditure in Syria over the period 1970-2010. The Johansen cointegration test showed that oil returns and external debt have a positive and significant long run relationship with government expenditure. The Granger causality test indicates unidirectional short-run causality relationships running f...