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USA: 2 Winners as Local Governments Rebuild |
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 MoneyShow.com
Thursday, January 26, 2012
By Benjamin Shepherd, Editor, KCI Investing
KCI Investing
Tickers mentioned: EGOV, AIRM
The economy may be slowly reviving, but states and local municipalities are still barely getting their footing…and these companies will help them in their recovery, writes Benjamin Shepherd of Personal Finance.
US state and local governments shed about 244,000 jobs in 2011 and 249,000 jobs in 2010, according to government data. Since the height of the global credit crunch in mid-2008, almost 670,000 state and local government jobs have been eliminated.
But as the US economy slowly heals, the outlook for state workers is beginning to improve. The US unemployment rate in December fell to 8.5%—hardly an ideal level, but a marked improvement from the 10.1% unemployment rate recorded in 2009. As Americans get back to work and spend their hard-earned dollars, state budgets are recovering, thanks to rising income tax and sales tax receipts.
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The Philippines: 20 Years After: Revisiting the Local Government Code |
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 Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
Jan 12, 2012
ISSUE ANALYSIS No. 01
Series of 2012
There should be an end to the fruitless process of reforming laws and crafting development strategies where the dubious intention is in furtherance of elite governance sugar-coated by meaningless concepts of “transparency and accountability”, LGU-civil society or “public-private partnership.”
By the Policy Study, Publication and Advocacy
Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
2012 marks the 20th year of the Local Government Code which took effect on January 1, 1992. The code provided for decentralization – giving autonomy to local governments – and the devolution of basic services. Decentralization was expected to reduce local governments’ dependence on the national government where powers and resources are highly centralized, and make local governance accountable as well as accessible to the people under an LGU- civil society partnership.
Today, however, observations on the impact of the law remain divided. One side criticizes the national government’s farcical transfer of real powers to the local government units (LGUs) while another cites the code’s failure to bring about real development in the local communities. On a positive note, all are one in calling for a revisit of the local government code with the aim of introducing reforms.
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 Dear friends,
Happy Rio+20 year!
We would like to share with you our “Contributions for the compilation document (that will serve as a guideline for the preparation of the provisional draft of the final document), as a response to the invitation of the Second Preparatory Committee of the CSD 2012/Rio+20”.
We have worked in these contributions from our new and young association: apGDM-WDGpa. Feel free to use and distribute at your discretion! The Spanish version is the original, and you could find the English and this Spanish version in:
http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?page=view&type=510&nr=96&menu=20
After Durban, we believe that our proposals in the last point of the document, related with the UNFCCC, "Proposals of extraordinary political actions of Rio+20 in relation to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)", are specially necessary and we would like to call your attention in the direction to try to put this point in the Rio+20 agenda!
All the best,
Josep Xercavins
associació projecte Governament Democràtic Mundial – World Democratic Governance project association, apGDM-WDGpa
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