The article is an outcome of a research study undertaken in the field of community development, one of the leading concepts in third world countries where community participation ensures the developmental needs of the people. The local governance system and its organs work as a bridge between...

Banks in the United States originate $100 billion in community development loans every year and hold similar amounts of community development investments on their balance sheets. Using hand collected data from thousands of Community Reinvestment Act performance evaluations, the effect of the...

This paper investigates the local economic consequences of prison closures in the US during the early 2010s. I use an empirical strategy that combines matching and difference-in-differences methods and estimate the causal effects on local labor market, population and housing outcomes. Prison...

An argument sometimes used to support renewable energy is that it may contribute to job creation. On the other hand, these technologies often face local opposition. On the case of Denmark, the country with the longest experience with wind power, we examine whether the installation of new...

The paper substantiates the implementation of the principles of democratic governance in public administration and management at the local level.The fundamental theoretical and legal bases of democratic governance are studied. The areas of administration for effective public activity are...

Public policies of national scope in the context of Brazilian federalism contain a diversity of challenges for their implementation, given the complexity of the contexts in which they face and the territorial magnitude of their scope. The theme of school feeding, structured around the National...