From the uneven de-diversification of local financial resources to planning policies: The residentialization hypothesis

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2110138
Author(s):  
Antoine Grandclement ◽  
Guilhem Boulay
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Property Taxes ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Business Taxes ◽  
Local Areas ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Planning Policies

This paper builds a theoretical framework to question the ramifications of the rise of consumption-based economy also known as residential economy in the context of a growing circulation of populations and income. We propose the term residentialization to describe the self-reinforcing and spatially uneven expansion of the residential economy, and its intertwined impacts on land use and tax revenues that are likely to influence future local planning policies. In local areas with a developing residential economy, demographic attractiveness and urbanization strongly affect the fiscal bases of property taxes and household-related taxes in general as opposed to business taxes. This process provides local governments with new fiscal revenues but also induces a growing dependence on these incomes, especially in an austerity era. This de-diversification of local financial resources results in inequalities that weigh on local governments’ financial leeway and hence on planning policies. Using a comprehensive database of the fiscal and financial resources of France's 35,000 municipalities over the last 15 years, we provide cartographic and statistical evidence of this uneven fiscal de-diversification. We build a multivariate classification of France's municipalities and show strong links between the structure and evolutions of local financial resources and the pace and forms of urbanization. These results draw attention to the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of consumption-oriented planning strategies in an austerity era.

From production to consumption-oriented development: New planning strategies in science parks? The case of Sophia-Antipolis

2021 ◽  
pp. 096977642110371
Author(s):  
Antoine Grandclement ◽  
Alexandre Grondeau
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Science Park ◽  
Hybrid Strategy ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Housing Shortages ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
The Impact

Recent works have highlighted the role of consumption in regional development and questioned the focus on production-oriented approaches in regional planning. To date, consumption-oriented strategies have only been studied in specific cases such as rural areas or urban regeneration projects. This article examines the impact of the growth of consumption-oriented activities on local policymaking processes. To do so, it studies the reshaping of local planning strategies in the science park of Sophia-Antipolis in the context of a growing residential economy. We show that local governments are now questioning traditional production-oriented policies as tensions appear between maintaining the area’s high-tech specialization and meeting the demands of residents for services and amenities. However, production- and consumption-oriented strategies should not be seen as being incompatible. Consumption-oriented strategies aim at reducing the dependence on high-tech activities, but they also contribute to meeting some of the science park’s challenges, such as housing shortages. They also help attract and retain highly skilled executives or engineers in the science park. More than a consumption turn, recent local policies in Sophia mark a shift from a technopolitan production-oriented strategy to a hybrid strategy based on tools embedded in a vast continuum from production-oriented to consumption-oriented strategies.

scholarly journals Local Revenue Mobilization and Composite Budget Implementation in Ghana: Examining the Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah
Keyword(s):  
Study Design ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Local Revenue ◽  
Local Areas

Central governments recognize the key role played by local governments in the developmental agenda of these local areas, especially the effort at generating sufficient revenue locally to fund its own projects and programs. Ensuring effectiveness in decentralization calls for sufficient financial resources to help run the administrative machinery and foster local-level development. The study set out to examine the main challenges affecting local revenue mobilization in Ghana using the experience of three selected districts. To understand these key challenges, this study adopted the case study design to select three administrative assemblies in Ghana. The study found many delays in releasing funds from the central government in terms of releases, poor IGF mobilization affecting operationalization of the district budgets, and ability to carry out socio-economic and infrastructural projects. The study recommends that a PPP arrangement for revenue mobilization should be structured to benefit the Assembly.

Concept and components of the financial-investment maintenance of local governance

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-112
Author(s):  
Zenoviy Siryk
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Investment Policy ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
And Function

The issues related to the management of financial resources of territorial communities, financial independence of local governments and forming of efficient financial-investment policy to secure the balanced development of local communities and territories become of utmost importance in conditions of financial decentralization and administrative-territorial reform in Ukraine. The problem issues concerning the forming of financial-investment maintenance of local governance directly impact the capacity of a territorial community that should have financial, material, and other resources in the volumes sufficient to completely accomplish the tasks and function of local governments and provide social services to the population at the level stipulated by national standards. The forming of financial-investment maintenance of local governance is revealed to be directly influencing the capacity of a territorial community that should have financial, material, and other resources in the volumes sufficient to completely accomplish the tasks and function of local governments and provide social services to the population. The expansion of local governments’ competences and granting them greater independence are substantiated to be requiring more responsibility in the financial-investment policy implementation on the local level, forming of conditions to perform the economic activity, and develop businesses by all economic entities, and promoting favorable investment climate in the region. Based on the analysis of approaches to the definition of the nature of “financial maintenance” and “investment maintenance” in the context of the peculiarities of local governments’ activity, the paper suggests understanding the “financial-investment maintenance of local governance” as a set of opportunities and activities on distribution and use of financial resources and territories’ resources for the creation of conditions necessary for the efficient functioning of local governments and realization of their competences.

FORMS OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN THE SYSTEM OF GUARANTEE OF NATURAL TECHNOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

2019 ◽  
pp. 34-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatolii Stepanenko ◽  
Alla Omelchenko
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Ecological Infrastructure

The essence and significance of public-private partnership (PPP) are disclosed, its forms and role as the key tool for solving important problems of balanced economic development are highlighted due to the involvement in the implementation of strategies of private operators. Defined forms of cooperation aimed at organizing interaction under the «business-government-community» scheme, the classification of PPP types is described, its forms and significance are analyzed in the system of providing of natural and technological and environmental safety on the basis of preventive safety. The promotion of the partnership mechanism in preserving and developing the ecological infrastructure is disclosed. The use of PPP as a mechanism for attracting investment projects to financial resources, redistributing risks and strengthening the responsibility of PPP parties for the implementation of investment projects is shown.

The Relation between Business Property Values and Local Property Taxes

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly G. Key ◽  
Teresa A. Lightner
Keyword(s):  
Property Values ◽  
Local Property ◽  
Property Taxes ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Industrial Property ◽  
Business Taxes ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Capital Tax ◽  
Business Property

ABSTRACT This study examines the relation between commercial and industrial property values and local property taxes using 1999 to 2009 data for the state of Georgia. Results show a negative relation between commercial values and property taxes, consistent with the new view of capital tax prediction that these taxes are borne, at least in part, by property owners. Incidence estimates show very high to full capitalization. There is little evidence of a relation between industrial property values and property taxes, contrary to prior research. This study is the first to provide empirical evidence of differences in commercial and industrial property tax incidence. The study contributes to the understanding of the capitalization of business taxes, which has been the subject of very little prior research. The results can inform policymakers who consider trade-offs in tax revenue needs, economic development, and issues of fairness in their localities.

Planning for Growth: Contradictions in the Framework of Economic and Urban Development from the “Spanish Miracle” (1959-1973)

2020 ◽  
pp. 009614422098333
Author(s):  
Juan Luis De las Rivas Sanz ◽  
Miguel Fernández-Maroto
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
National Level ◽  
Growth Period ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Economic Planning ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Planning Policies

In the postwar period, the strong economic growth in Western countries coincided with the configuration of their modern urban planning systems. This article aims at exploring to what extent the targets of the economic planning that was broadly adopted in this growth period conditioned the performance of urban planning tools by analyzing the case of Spain. During the so-called “Spanish miracle” that started in the early 1960s and lasted until the mid-1970s, there were notable contradictions between economic and spatial planning policies and between the performance of the national and the municipal governments. It is concluded that the lack of an integrated approach to regional and urban planning policies at national level combined to the gap with the actual local planning framework, illustrated through the example of three cities, can help to understand the patterns of urban growth in a context of an expanding economy.

ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL DISTRIBUTION OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES THE UNITED TERRITORIAL COMMUNITY IN THE CONTEXT OF SECURITY CONDITIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 298 (5 Part 1) ◽  
pp. 310-314
Author(s):  
Volodymyr GEVKO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Budget Decentralization ◽  
Comprehensive Study

In modern transformational conditions, the formation of Ukrainian statehood with the choice of the European course of urgency is gaining the issue of budget decentralization, where the key figures are the efficiency of local governments. In this regard, there is a problem of optimal redistribution of financial resources and powers of local authorities, which today are the main and most relevant for improving the efficiency of the budget system as a whole, because the effectiveness of socio-economic policy and its economic security directly depend on rational built and balanced system of economic relations, a clear redistribution of financial resources and flexibility of ways to use them. The article conducts a comprehensive study the mechanism of distribution financial resources the united territorial community in the context of security. The system of management balanced development the united territorial community on the basis of application of safety conditions is substantiated. It is proposed to consider the distribution of budget funds in the territorial community depending on the area, the number of rural residents and the actual income of village (settlement) for the relevant period. Two projects of algorithm calculation the budget with separation of main stages are formed.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Policy Effect of China’s Environmental Interview System for Effective Air Quality Governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (17) ◽  
pp. 9006
Author(s):  
Xue Jin ◽  
Ussif Rashid Sumaila ◽  
Kedong Yin ◽  
Zhichao Qi
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Interview System

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China formally proposed an environmental interview system in May 2014, which applies pressure on local governments to fulfill their responsibility toward environmental protection by conducting face-to-face public interviews with their officials. In this paper, 48 cities that were publicly interviewed from 2014–2020 were considered the experimental group and 48 cities surrounding them were the control group. First, the dynamic panel model is applied to initially determine the effect of the policy. Then, a regression discontinuity method (Sharp RD) is used to analyze the short-term and long-term effects and compare the reasons for the differences observed among the estimates of various types of samples. Finally, a series of robustness tests were also conducted. The results show that the environmental interview system can improve air quality. However, because an emergency short-term local governance system exists at present, the governance effect is not long-term and, therefore, not sustainable. Therefore, it suggests that the government should continue to improve the environmental interview system, establish an optimal environmental protection incentive mechanism, and encourage local governments to implement environmental protection policies effectively in the long term. The results of the research are of great significance to the environmental impact assessment system of the world, especially in countries with similar economic systems, which are facing a trade-off between economic growth and environmental sustainability.

POSITIONING OF THE REGION ON THE PRINCIPLES OF BRAND FORMATION

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Danyluk ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Rapid Decline ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Brand Promotion

The process of positioning a region is one of the most important tools for attracting investment to a territory. In turn, the methods of work of the human health management system, contributing to the improvement of the quality of life of the population. However, effective tools for positioning the region, which take into account the geographical location, recreational conditions of the territory, the available opportunities, its cultural, national and ethnic identification, as well as differences, have not yet been proposed. This is evidenced by the low level of investment in the regions, the weak development of the real sector of the territory's economy, the rapid decline in the living standards of most of the region's residents, and, as a consequence, the growth in the rate of population migration. Thus, the formation of tools for positioning and identification of the region, which allows you to determine their competitive advantages, is a basic prerequisite for ensuring the economic development of the territory. In modern conditions of the transfer of powers and budgets of state bodies to local governments, the positioning of the region becomes a possible condition for their competitiveness. The article discusses the interpretation of the concept of "positioning", in particular, two of its basic components are highlighted: positioning as a strategy, positioning as a set of actions. Approaches to the positioning of the brand of the region are analyzed, where the region is considered from the position of a unique phenomenon and a complex product with a wide range of properties. The signs of a successful brand are determined, the main goals of branding, assessment, classification of models and stages of positioning the region are highlighted. and also: diagnosis of the situation, formulation of the essence of the brand, a strategic plan for brand promotion. implementation of the strategic plan, assessment of the effectiveness of the formed brand.

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