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How cities fail: Service delivery insolvency and municipal bankruptcy

MARCH 10, 2020 | MICHIGAN STATE LAW REVIEW

Forthcoming article by Clayton Gillette, abstract includes “Focus on a municipality’s failure to deliver services certainly serves as a plausible proxy for fiscal health, since provision of services is a primary function of local governments and thus a function that a financially healthy municipality would satisfy. … Nevertheless, this article indicates severe limitations of a service delivery insolvency test. … Population outflows may serve as an alternative indicator of fiscal distress. …”

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