Union Parishads (councils) being the century old rural local government in Bangladesh are yet to fulfill the expectations of rural citizen which is mainly due to own resources constraints including miserable local resources mobilization. This paper focuses on Union Parishads recent revenue trend and performance from five years secondary data (2003-2007) and primary data collected from Parishad ...

Modern times see an increased emphasis on the importance of sound governance in and by the local sphere of government. This holds particularly true for South Africa where, since the coming into effect of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, a number of objectives, critical functions and developmental duties have been laid before the door of local authorities. A comprehensive ...

Partnering is often claimed to represent a solution small local government organizations (SLGOs) can resort to in order to manage innovation. However, especially when private partners are involved, resources and specialized competencies need to be allocated on the management of the partnership in order to guarantee that it will deliver a public value. SLGOs often lack such resources and this ca...

Across the developing world, many governments have implemented political reforms—heavily promoted by international donors—designed to transfer greater power to subnational levels of government and to provide a more substantial policymaking and oversight role to citizens. Although economic analyses have frequently argued that such decentralization programs improve the efficiency of public expend...

In many countries, an important driver for concern about public values arises from falling trust in public institutions. One widely identified explanation has been the conduct of politicians, to which governments around the globe have responded by creating systems of ethics regulation and reform. This includes England, where measures instigated by the 2000 Local Government Act took a particular...

the study examined the socio-economic and farm level characteristics influencing adoption of rice production technologies in lavun local government area of niger state, nigeria. a total of 76 farmers were randomly selected from 24 villages and data were collected using interview schedule. descriptive statistics, adoption index and discriminate analysis were used to analyze data. the result reve...

This chapter examines the development of e-Government in selected Egyptian local governments. A content analysis of 25 local government website portals was conducted examining categories of eManagement, e-Services, e-Democracy, and e-Decision making. The study first sets out to examine the overall level of maturity of local government websites in these four areas in Egypt. Second, this study ex...

One of these is community care for the mentally disordered (i-e., for the mentally ill, the mentally deficient and the psychopathic); the Mackintosh report, the Royal Commission and the new Rental Health Act all accept this as one of their working principles. \et another theory is that of social work in Local Government as distinct from general welfare duties. This is the keystone of the awe-in...

the study assessed economic of maize production in ogori/magongo local government area of kogi state. to this end, effort was made to examine the socio economic characteristics of the maize farmers, determine the resource use efficiency, problems as well as profitability of maize production in the area. to achieve the objectives of this study 48 maize farmers where randomly selected from 5 ward...