Effective waste management systems can make critical contributions to public health,
environmental sustainability and economic development. The challenge affects every …

This article, investigates efficiency in the municipal sector of the Region of Murcia (Spain).
With that aim, data of 31 municipalities (69% of the response rate) have been collected …

This paper analyzes returns to scale in public production. Existing studies fail to differentiate
among three dimensions of scale: service quality, the level of governmental activity, and the …

The NSW Government is implementing a financial framework which is designed to
encourage government service providers to become more efficient and effective. NSW …

In this paper the efficiency of the Spanish Police Service is analysed using Data
Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The analysis concentrates on the police activities related to …

Faced with increasing crime rates, but nonincreasing budgets, local governments are
seeking cost saving means of providing public safety. This paper investigates a …

This paper considers the provision of some important municipal services and applies the
non-parametric double bootstrap Simar and Wilson (J Econ 136 (1): 31–64, 2007) model …

要 約わが国における地方分権の推進と**年の厳しい財政状況を背景として, 市町村合併の必要が
以前にも増して論じられるようになっている. 地方分権の議論において市町村合併は, 分権の …

In recent years, Spanish municipal authorities have been devoting important amounts of
their resources to financing the construction and maintenance of sports facilities. However …

Background We sought to identify if socioeconomic and demographic factors play a role in
resident knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika in …