This study develops spatial lag models to evaluate the performance of neighborhoods with new urbanist features in the recent housing recession in the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. It found that single-family homes that are closer to the central city held their value better in the recent recession, which might be a sign of recentralization. The effects of new urbanist features on home app...

In Lao PDR, lack of skilled manpower and financial resources in the central government, plus the policy urging local authorities to be self-sufficient and self-reliant caused the central government to decentralize all sectors to the provincial level in 1987. After 1987, the provinces took over all responsibilities such as planning, financing and provision of health services, only informing the ...

Thailand in 2018 became the latest developing country to impose mandatory rules on its fiscal policy that included a national limit accumulation of public debt and direct control local government budgets. Such recentralization is generally assumed literature multi-level finance weaken economic, fiscal, conditions. Yet newer emphasis this asserts potential value central governments steering cons...

BACKGROUND In 2013, Kenya transitioned into a devolved system of government with a central government and 47 semi-autonomous county governments. In this paper, we report early experiences of devolution in the Kenyan health sector, with a focus on public county hospitals. Specifically, we examine changes in hospital autonomy as a result of devolution, and how these have affected hospital functio...

<p>The suburbs of Tokyo Metropolis are experiencing path-dependent, multifaceted shrinkage in socio-demographic, economic, and political administrative (including fiscal) dimensions. The following two contradictory processes taking place the opposite direction at work, namely: decentralization authority responsibility (although without much fiscal devolution), recentralization workplaces,...

The Technische Universität München (TUM) has been awarded as one of three German elite universities. To better support students, researchers, and guests, as well as placing them in control of the use of their personal data in a growing number of interorganizational projects, we designed user-centric solutions with a strong focus on both the organizational and technical aspects. In this article,...