Ever since 2007, along with the completion of the EU accession process, but also before that, our country has constantly focused on improving local government standards either through a solid and sustained reform or through public system management renewal and enhancement. In the actual context,...

The paper’s objective is to present the affordability and the fiscal pressure, essential indicators, in our opinion, in capitalising every local community’s fiscal policies, specific to the natural person and legal person tax payers. Therefore, these indicators must be considered when...

One of the requirements to improve the services performed by the local public administration in the Republic of Moldova is the strategic approach of its activity. In order to enhance the local public administration efficiency, there has been created the appropriate institutional and legal...

Many countries badly mismanage their natural resource endowments. We argue that a fundamental change in paradigm is needed. Specifically, we advocate treating non-renewable natural resources as a finite shared inheritance asset, and extraction as the sale of the inherited wealth. We identify...

In den kommenden Jahren wird die bislang vom Westen geprägte Weltordnung des möglichst ungehinderten Austausches und des Multilateralismus an Einfluss verlieren, globale Institutionen werden es noch schwerer haben, ihrem Auftrag des Interessensausgleichs und der Förderung der internationalen...

The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. But every country has unique features of the intergovernmental fiscal system. In general municipal expenditures are rapidly growing in European countries. On the other hand local tax increases are not easily...