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One way of approaching the design of a conceptual framework for analysing the question of local government sustainability is to develop a typology of the main causes of financial sustainability. What is therefore required is a typology of local government sustainability that simultaneously embraces both ‘internal’ factors and ‘external’ forces that impinge on the long-run sustainability of municipal authorities.