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2008
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Urban Public Economics Review
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Estudios Territoriales local governments Local government finances Portugal JEL classification: H70Sujets proches
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José da Silva, « Local Governments in Portugal », Urban Public Economics Review, ID : 10670/1.1r73dc
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"After more than three decades of democracy, local governments in Portugal face new challenges with a significant increase in their attributions as well as a new role they have to play as providers of local public goods. Portuguese local governments have now the experience and the organization to aspire to move from quantity to quality, production to management, information asymmetry to transparency and accountability, monopoly to competition, growth to sustainability and bureaucracy to simplicity. In this paper we present an overview of the way walked by Portuguese local governments in the last three decades and we characterize the present problems they face concerning their financing."