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100	1		_aBOYNE, George _91394
245	1	0	_aPopulation size and economies of scale in local government
260			_aUK : _bPolicy Press, _cjuly. 1995
520	3		_aThe existence of scale economies in the production of local government services is increasingly questioned by policy makers and academics. In place of the old orthodoxy that big is beautiful, a new orthodoxy is emerging that there are no significant scale effects. However, the empirical evidence does not warrant this conclusion. There may be scale economies in local services, but these relate to the output of service plants, not the size of the population; and there may be population effects on local performance, but these concern effectiveness and responsiveness rather than efficiency. Thus, economies of scale and population effects need to be tested separately but considered together in decisions on local government reorganisation
651		4	_aChina _913345
773	0	8	_tPolicy & Politics _g23, 3, p. 213-222 _dUK : Policy Press, july. 1995 _xISSN 03055736 _w
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998			_a20111020 _b1506^b _cGeisneer
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c40667 _d40667
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