Determinants and Directions of Evolution of Intermunicipal Cooperation Forms – From the Perspective of 30 Years of Experience in the Creation of Municipal Associations in Poland

Ofiarska, Małgorzata

doi:10.5171/2022.349212

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“…The first hypothesis is focused on the notion that the municipalities would enter into IMC based on the stronger municipal performance of collaborating municipalities. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that IMC faces economic, legal and management challenges (Ofiarska 2022). The second hypothesis is focused on the notion that the municipalities would enter into IMC taking into account the risks associated with IMC.…”

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Decision-Making Algorithm for the Issuance of the Green Bonds by Municipalities in Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Lithuania

Bužinskė,

Stankevičienė

2023

Economies

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The objective of this study is to establish a decision-making algorithm for issuing green bonds by municipalities in inter-municipal cooperation in Lithuania with a focus on zero-waste projects. The research methodology comprises four parts. The first part of the research methodology corresponds to a literature review that examines the concept of inter-municipal cooperation and its development in different countries. The second part of the research methodology is dedicated to the formulation of the valuation approach for the inter-municipal cooperation possibility and approbation of it in the selected municipalities. The third part of the research methodology covers the development of the decision-making algorithm for issuing green bonds by municipalities in inter-municipal cooperation in Lithuania. The last part of the research methodology summarizes the results of the survey and proposals for its further development. The findings suggest that the selected municipalities for the valuation of inter-municipal cooperation possibility could improve municipal performance for better inter-municipal cooperation results. The results also show that a smaller municipality corresponds to moderate municipal performance, which can be expected in comparison to a larger municipality. The findings of the construction of the decision-making algorithm suggest a 12-step process for the issuance of green bonds in Lithuania. The practical implications of the study are based on the notion that findings can be applied by municipalities willing to issue green bonds, smaller municipalities having challenges finding financial sources, and municipalities in inter-municipal cooperation sharing the same goals. An original aspect of this paper is its study focus on inter-municipal cooperation valuation and the issuance of green bonds in the municipalities of a smaller country which can serve as a reference point for considering the potential issuance of green bonds in municipalities of similar size.

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Decision-Making Algorithm for the Issuance of the Green Bonds by Municipalities in Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Lithuania

Bužinskė,

Stankevičienė

2023

Economies

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“…The unification of functions, tasks and sources of income of local self-government units (especially municipalities) carried out at the stage of determining the political and financial basis for the functioning of local self-government, the successive transfer from the sphere of government administration of tasks to be performed subsequently by the local self-government, and even taking immediate needs into account (the need to secure the current needs of the state budget during the public finance crisis at the turn of the 20 th -21 st century or the challenges faced by local self-government in the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic) were the premises for the growing interest on the part of local selfgovernment in instruments to correct the regulations adopted in this field and developing various forms of intermunicipal cooperation (IMC) (Ofiarska, 2022).…”

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Polish Experience in the Search for the Optimal Model of Performing and Financing Metropolitan Tasks

Ofiarska

2023

PGAF

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For nearly 25 years, the problem of managing public affairs in metropolitan areas in Poland has been present in the public debate and the legislative process. The aim of the study is to analyse and evaluate the projects and adopted acts dedicated to such areas. Using legal dogmatics and historical and legal methods, successive attempts have been made to adopt a legal basis for managing metropolitan areas and performing and financing metropolitan tasks, both in the form of a single act, regulating the organisation and functioning of metropolitan selfgovernment throughout the country using a comprehensive and framework approach and legal solutions dedicated to only one metropolitan area. In 2017, the first and so far the only metropolitan union in Poland was established in the Silesian Voivodeship. It was determined that the search for appropriate organisational forms for the performance and sources of financing metropolitan tasks had not yet been completed. So far, an agreement has been reached on the choice of a statutory functional solution based on the structure of a metropolitan union and a catalogue of metropolitan tasks, separate from the public tasks of municipalities and districts. The metropolitan union was provided with financing from the state budget.

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Determinants and Directions of Evolution of Intermunicipal Cooperation Forms – From the Perspective of 30 Years of Experience in the Creation of Municipal Associations in Poland

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Decision-Making Algorithm for the Issuance of the Green Bonds by Municipalities in Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Lithuania

Decision-Making Algorithm for the Issuance of the Green Bonds by Municipalities in Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Lithuania

Polish Experience in the Search for the Optimal Model of Performing and Financing Metropolitan Tasks

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