USV Annals of Economics and Public Administration (Dec 2015)
EXPENSES FOR SERVICES AND PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING, ENVIRONMENT AND WATER IN LOCAL BUDGETS
Abstract
In the present study we aim to analyze and deepen an important category of expenditure funded from local budgets namely expenses on services and public development, dwellings, environment and water. Our approach begins with determining scientifically the place of such expenses in local spending by clarifying their content and role. A special part of the article treats the particularities and financing of public utilities and finance and making investments related to public utility systems. The research is based on quantitative analysis of expenses for services and public development, dwellings, environment and water in local budgets from existing data in the Statistical Yearbook of Romania and highlights the structure of these types of expenditures and their place within public expenses in local budgets. The study includes an analysis of the dynamics of the share hold by expenses for services and public development, housing, environment and water in total expenditures from local budgets. The research carries out that the evolution and structure of expenses for services and public development, housing, environment and water from local budgets is determined by several variables that differ from one administrative territorial unit to another: the village area, length of roads, sewage system, number and social structure of the population. The research shows that within expenditures for public services and development, dwellings, environment and water the biggest share of expenditure is hold by expenditure on housing, public services and development (about 64%). During the period 2000-2013, the dynamics of expenditures for services and public development, dwellings, environment and water in the total expenditure of local budgets is sinusoidal, reaching a minimum threshold of 11.1% in 2011.
