This paper analyses the problem of sub-national revenue mobilization in Peru and proposes several policy reforms to improve collection performance while maintaining a sound revenue structure. We analyze the current revenues of regional and municipal governments and identify the main priorities of reform. Among the most important problems are the acute inequalities and inefficiencies associated ...

WiFi offloading has been recently proposed as a cost-effective solution for coming up against the unprecedented increase in the mobile data traffic volume. However, apart from reducing the operational costs of a network operator, WiFi offloading can be also promoted as an alternative low-cost access service for users with low willingness-to-pay. In this paper, we consider a monopolistic scenari...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) initiated the Task Force Project to evaluate the feasibility of conducting a population-based stroke registry in Ludhiana city, Punjab, Northwest India. METHODS All first-ever, stroke patients over 18 years from the city of Ludhiana were included in the study from March 26th 2010 to March 25th 2011. Stroke information was collected...

Information and communications technology (ICT) is being exploited within cities to enable them to better compete in a global knowledge-based service-led economy. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, cities exploited large technical systems (LTSs)Vsuch as the telegraph, telephony, electrical networks, and other technologiesVto enhance their social and economic position. This paper examine...

Safe disposal of municipal sewage sludge is a challenging global environmental concern. The aim of this study was to assess the response of soil microbial functional diversity to the accumulation of municipal sewage sludge during landfill storage. Soil samples of a municipal sewage sludge (SS) and from a sewage sludge landfill that was 3 m from a SS landfill (SS3) were analyzed relative to an u...

BACKGROUND Medical records are kept in the interest of both the patient and clinician. Proper filing of patient's medical records ensures easy retrieval and contributes to decreased patient waiting time at the hospital and continuity of care. This paper reports on an intervention study to address the issue of misfiling and multiple patient folders in a health facility. DESIGN Intervention stu...

Whether city governments should intervene and provide public funds for building Municipal Wireless Networks (MWN) is a controversial and important issue. Some people support the government’s intervention because MWN services seem to fit in the “public goods” category and result in “positive externality” (Cornes and Sandler, 1986). However, others are suspicious of the efficacy of the government...

Article history: Received 9 November 2012 Received in revised form 27 June 2013 Accepted 28 August 2013 Available online 27 November 2013 This study focuses on the appropriation process of two public computing infrastructures in the City of Oulu, Finland, a municipalWiFi network and large interactive displays. We analyze the adoption of these technologies in public urban places with a conceptua...

A study was conducted to identify pertaining to the care of HIV infected patients among nurses in the County of West Pomerania. Most of the respondents (43.2%) were working in municipal hospitals, 38.7% in hospitals located in the country and 18% in academic hospitals. The responding nurses ranged in age from 20 to 58 (median 38 years). Median of work experience was 16 (1-28) years. The respond...