Documents tagged with Decentralization

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Competitiveness and Growth in Brazilian Cities: Local Policies and Actions for Innovation

The book contributes to answering the questions raised by mayors, governors, and federal government officials in Brazil: “What can cities do to improve economic performance and create jobs?” The qu...
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  • worldbank published this 12 / 10 / 2009
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The Postmodern Unified Society: the harmonious democratic system and the sustainable affluent system

Human society has developed from the prehistoric hunter-gatherer society as the harmonious sustainable system to the postmodern Unified Society as the harmonious democratic system and the sustainab...
  • einsnewt published this 10 / 01 / 2009
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Intergovernmental Reforms in the Russian Federation: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?

This study represents the most comprehensive review of fiscal federalism in the Russian Federation, presenting a strong case for greater decentralization. Given its vast size, immense diversity – i...
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  • worldbank published this 09 / 01 / 2009
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UNDP&Bappenas2008-Indones iaProliferationRegionalAd m

Research on the Impact of Proliferation of Indonesia's Regional Administrative Government 2001-2007
  • surjadi published this 08 / 19 / 2009
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Decentralizing Stewardship. Minister’s decision a lesson in the power of empowerment. (FREE PDF vers

There is no better way to understand how the rules can change, how people can become engaged in making better decisions, and how surprise and discovery can ignite communities than to follow the col...
  • SPmag published this 07 / 17 / 2009
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Canadian Federalism: The Courts, Constitutional Change and Social Evolution

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) for many years and in many different rulings had a decentralising effect on the Canadian federation. Despite the quasi federal character of the Br...
  • mensoelrey published this 06 / 20 / 2009
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Incentives to Improve Teaching: Lessons from Latin America

Latin America faces tremendous challenges, particularly those of development, poverty, and inequality. Education is widely recognized as one of the most critical means of defeating these challenges...
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  • worldbank published this 06 / 02 / 2009
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BBTN-MasterCourses

Get a Master for the 21. Century Organization. Get to know a thrilling, energizing and success bringing alternative to boring command control management. You learn to develop solutions for the spe...
  • gborck published this 03 / 24 / 2009
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Towards Local Democracy in Nepal - by Damodar Adhikari

It is a research based book written in the local governance context of Nepal. Decentralization and participatory planning are the focus of the research, which have been taken as integral parts of l...
  • damodar.adhikari@gmail.com published this 08 / 30 / 2008
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An Assessment of Technology for Local Development

Appropriate technology (AT) involves an attempt to tailor the scale and complexity of a technology to the job it needs to do. AT has been proposed by some of its advocates as an answer to many of t...
  • macro published this 07 / 25 / 2008
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BOOK NOTES 2008 06 The Starfish and the Spider

Personal notes of book
  • John_Baw published this 07 / 02 / 2008
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Faguet 2004

This paper examines whether decentralization increases the responsiveness of public investment to local needs using a unique database from Bolivia. Empirical tests show that investment patterns in ...
  • rorourke published this 10 / 18 / 2007
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