In the last three decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has managed to replace its welfare-based urban housing system with a market-based housing provision scheme. With such significant housing policy changes, the PRC has successfully expanded urban home ownership and impressively increased per capita housing consumption. The housing market has become one of the major pillar industries ...

This paper develops the fiscal health index of 21 local governments in Taiwan over the 1984 to 2010 period. A quantile regression analysis was used to explore the extent that economic variables, political budget cycles, and legislative checks and balances, impact different quantiles of fiscal health index for a country over a sample period of time. Our findings suggest that local governments at...

smacks of "political conservatism," is nonetheless founded on our Constitution-that is, that only problems found difficult of solution on local levels imay be referred to the central government. The federal government should fill clear and present needs, where local authorities-state governments, universities-are not able to supply the requisites. Perhaps the future of the intramural programs c...

In this note we analyze whether a federal transfer system can be designed to increase welfare when state governments create political budget cycles. The results show how the federal government can counteract the welfare costs of these cycles, without hindering politicians from signaling their type, by announcing a transfer scheme to subsidize expenditures that voters do not consider when voting...

MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION of cells may be accompanied by a change in responsiveness to hormonal stimulation. Since hormones exert their effects on cells by binding to specific receptors, the responsiveness of normal or neoplastic tissue to hormonal stimulation is at least partly determined by the presence and concentration of hormone receptors. A number of experimental tumours possess cell-membr...

The manufacturing, processing, and use of chemicals, materials, tools, machinery, and equipment in industrial, construction, mining, and agricultural workplaces are often accompanied by environmental, health, and safety hazards and risks. Occupational and environmental factors cause or exacerbate major diseases of the respiratory, cardiovascular, reproductive, and nervous system and cause syste...

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electronic government is a new concept that governments according to level of development implement in different ways. utilizing informational systems in business sections has created potential context for developing electronic government. customer relationship ‎management (crm) is an important system in management that helps to develop electronic government and promote citizenship-based in org...