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Main Trends of Subfederal Fiscal Policy
The paper defines conditions necessary for a financial base of a local government, proposes a technique to analyze the structure, fiscal sustainability and efficiency of subfederal fiscal policy examined on the basis of fiscal data on Novosibirsk Oblast for the period 2006–2012. We have assessed the structure of the local budget in Novosibirsk Oblast and calculated characteristics of inhomogeneity of fiscal indicators before and after regional budget allocation. The obtained results indicate that inhomogeneity of budget revenues reduces after municipal governments are funded from the regional budget. We identify territories influencing significantly the differentiation indices taking into account funds from a superior budget. Having assessed the how effective the stimuli increase tax revenues of local budget, we can draw a conclusion that the used stimuli work towards saving and developing tax potential of municipal institutions. In general, subfederal fiscal policy is focused on optimizing local revenue base foundation and execution
Sumskaya T. V. [email protected]
Keywords: information and communications technologies municipal unit local self-governance local authorities subfederal fiscal policy
Information and communications technologies: how they are used by municipal authorities in the Altay Krai
The paper identifies the indices of how information and communications technologies are used by local authorities and other municipal institutions. The values of such indices are calculated for some city districts and municipalities of the Altay Krai. We show the difference between the application of the information and communications technologies by city districts and other municipalities in an agro-industrial region through using the data for the Altay Krai. The measures undertaken by the Altay Krai authorities to overcome such differences are presented
Kazantseva I. A. [email protected]
Keywords: information society electronic document management (EDM) municipal unit information and communications technologies municipal unit
