Internally Generated Revenue and Public Expenditure in Nigeria Local Government

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-40
Author(s):  
Obisanya . ◽  
Abiodun Richard ◽  
Hassan Ibrahim Korede ◽  
Job Olatunji ◽  
Kehinde Asamu
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Expenditure

Stress Tests as a Tool to Assess the Risk of Public Expenditure on Debt Servicing Increasing at Local Government Entities

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-224
Author(s):  
Marta Postuła ◽  
Miroslaw Czekaj ◽  
Jaroslaw Klepacki
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
Stress Tests ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
Development Expenditure ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Eu

National and local government's public debt is of special interest to economic sciences. With interest rates in the EU countries now at historically low levels, there is risk of a trend change causing development expenditure to be crowded out from budgets in favour of debt servicing costs. The analysis (stress test) of the sensitivity of debt servicing costs in the local government sector in Poland to an unexpected growth of market interest rates above the values forecasted by the MoF confirms that local governments are exposed to interest rate growth risk, and consequently to the risk of their budgets incurring unplanned expenditure.

scholarly journals Making Progress in Northern Ireland? Evidence from Recent Elections

1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Knox ◽  
Paul Carmichael
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
General Election ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Refuse Collection ◽  
Limited Role ◽  
The Media

THE ELECTION OF 582 COUNCILLORS TO NORTHERN IRELAND'S 26 local authorities on 21 May 1997 was eclipsed, to a large extent, by the media focus on the General Election earlier that month (1 May). That little attention is paid to the only elected forum with executive powers in Northern Ireland is neither new nor surprising. Councils in the province have relatively few functional responsibilities, confined principally to the delivery of regulatory services (street cleaning, refuse collection, leisure and tourism and a limited role in economic development); representation on area boards which deliver major services such as education; and a consultative role in relation to planning, roads, water and housing which are delivered through ‘Next Steps’ agencies or similar arm's-length organizations. This minor role is reflected in the level of council budgets. In 1997/98, the estimated net expenditure for local government in Northern Ireland amounts to £230 million, approximately three per cent of identifiable public expenditure.

scholarly journals A TRACKING SURVEY OF RESOURCE FLOW FROM UBEC TO PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN IBADAN NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OYO STATE, NIGERIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1048-1060
Author(s):  
Abisola Abodunrin Gbenro ◽  
Joel Babatunde Babalola
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
School Level ◽  
Public Accountability

The tracking of public spending on education has gradually become a fashionable practice because of the general view that public expenditure may not reach the publicly run schools due to leakages triggered by corruption, mismanagement and weak monitoring mechanisms. This has increased the fear that the expenditure on primary education might not translate into improved learning. Consequently, this research tracked the flow of instructional materials from the Federal Government Agency through the State Government Agency and the Local Government Agency to the primary school level, assessed the efficiency of public spending and determined the location and scale of anomaly by adopting Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) to address issues of public accountability in the management of the Universal Basic Education funds in Oyo state. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study using the quantitative and qualitative multi-angular data collection strategy which blended primary survey-based data with secondary information from documentary sources. The population of the study consisted of all seventy four (74) primary schools in Ibadan North Local Government area of Oyo State, Nigeria. The results indicated a significant evidence of resource leakage, existence of lobbying, hoarding of textbooks by some schools and lack of information to the stakeholders on funds released and allocation to schools. Based on the findings, the study recommended that necessary information on public allocations be made readily available to all stakeholders and that policy reforms be made to improve and enforce public accountability in the process of basic education delivery especially in Oyo State, Nigeria.

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