Non-Departmental Public Bodies Under the Howard Governments

Spatial competition of governments in the investment on public facilities

I study competition of the governments that make a decision on the investment in their public facilities, which yield an excludable good with nonrivalry. Special attention is paid to their strategic interaction, their spatial relationship, an opportunity to exploit third party regions, and a discrete nature of some of their choices. Their decision making process is analyzed as a two-stage game ...

city ’ s Small public High Schools of choice By Howard

J a n u a r y 2 0 1 2 improving academic progress and substantially improving graduation prospects, particularly for disadvantaged students. This report included data for over 21,000 students from four cohorts who entered ninth grade between fall 2005 and fall 2008. Findings in the report were based on a series of randomized lotteries that were used when SSCs had more applicants than seats, in ...

Evaluating Public Expenditures When Governments Must Rely on Distortionary Taxation

The evaluation of public expenditures is a central concern of development economics-and a concern highlighted by the increasingly stringent budget constraints in both developing and developed countries. This task has also become increasingly difficult as governments have moved their focus away from providing private, tradable, goods towards public goods that are provided either without charge, ...

The paediatric departmental library.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE: Governments Serving Citizens