Local budgets in Romania are balanced with revenues transferred from state budget according to the criterions laid down in the Local Public Finance Act. These criterions are focusing on the financial capacity, population and surface, each local budget getting balancing amounts inversely with the...

Being a succession of stages through which the local budgets are crossing as financial balances, in connection with the substantialisation and the achievement of the registered indicators in these, the local budgetary process is ruled by a series of principles. These are a synthesis of the...

The local budget process is in close connection with the economic development of the territorial-administrative units, firstly because the former implies the collection of budget revenues based on which local authorities provide public services to citizens and ensure the provision of such...

Today, the role of CIO in local government is becoming increasingly important. In the last 25 years there was among theorists and practitioners a significant increase in the volume of studies on the powers and role of the CIO in the public entities which are facing different challenges from...

The paper objectifies the first part of a larger projects aiming at establishing a public decision-making map pertaining to the negative externalities in the framework of the economic approach of subsidiarity in the multilevel governance (the case of Romania). The first part of the larger...

The attentive diagnosis of the local economic basis, the deep understanding of the obstacles that confront the economic growth and the investments, the elaboration and the implementation of certain strategies to facilitate the investments are the means by which the local authorities can assure...

Local authority financing is currently at the heart of the political debate. All the states are faced with the challenge of reconciling the need to control and reduce public spending with greater financial autonomy in local government; they are accordingly seeking ways of achieving an equitable...