The financial sustainability of local governments is a central concern in public finance, entailing the capacity of municipalities and other sub-national entities to manage revenues, expenditures and ...

Solar panels and wind turbines at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's Pine Tree clean energy project in the Tehachapi Mountains. Changes to the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy tax ...

“When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve.” – Valerie Jarrett, a former Senior Advisor to former ...

The call for greater diversity in leadership has grown louder, yet women remain underrepresented in political offices, particularly at the local government level. Despite making up more than half the ...

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has said that it would be impossible for the local government to develop without empowerment. Akpabio emphasised that the local government remains the first ...

The Future Governance Forum has called for a new blueprint to modernise and digitise local government, including a sector-wide workforce plan, de-risking innovation, targeted funding and creating a ...