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Does decentralization enhance service delivery and poverty reduction?

Ahmad, Ehtisham (contributor); Brosio, Giorgio (contributor) - 2009

Does decentralization enhance service delivery and poverty reduction? Drawing on cutting edge research, expert contributors address this fundamental question facing policy-makers in developing as well as advanced countries. This timely book builds upon insights on the recent developments in the...

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Contracts and trust in alliances : discovering, creating and appropriating value

Vlaar, Paul W. L. - 2008

advances a more integrative framework. He probes issues such as: • the tension between the need and the ability to contract … control • dialectical tensions stemming from contract application • standardization of contracting practices. By exploring … -- ch. 3. Need versus ability to contract -- ch. 4. How trust and contracts coevolve -- ch. 5. Functions of negotiation and …

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The economics of outsourcing

Willcocks, Leslie - 2014

Street Journal, A1 -- Macneil, I.R. (1980), The New Social Contract: An Inquiry into Modern Contractual Relations, New Haven …, and Relational Contract Law', Northwestern University Law Review, 72 (6), 854-905 -- Ronald Coase (1998), 'The New … (8), August, 707-25 -- Paul L. Joskow (1987), 'Contract Duration and Relationship-Specific Investments: Empirical …

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Modelling the composition of government expenditure

Creedy, John - 2011

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Tax and transfer policy using behavioural microsimulation modelling : design and evaluation

Creedy, John; Mok, Penny - 2022

"Combining theoretical and practical aspects of policy analysis, this book evaluates actual and proposed policy reforms to income tax and transfer systems, using a behavioural tax microsimulation model. It highlights how these models allow for the full details of tax systems and the considerable...

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Tax and transfer tensions : designing direct tax structures

Creedy, John - 2011

This comprehensive and lucid book is concerned with the analysis of tax design and the problems involved in choosing a tax and transfer structure. John Creedy discusses central problems which are illustrated using relatively simple models. He argues that economists can make a valuable...

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The state of welfare

Steiner, Gilbert Yale - 1971

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Work over welfare : the inside story of the 1996 welfare reform law

Haskins, Ron - 2006

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Reducing global poverty : the case for asset accumulation ; [this volume grew out of the Brookings Institution-Ford Foundation Workshop on Asset-Based Approaches to Poverty Reducti...

Moser, Caroline O. N. (contributor); Moser, Caroline O. (ed.) - 2007

Introduction / Caroline Moser -- Intergenerational asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1978-2004 / Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton -- Learning from asset-based approaches to poverty / Michael R. Carter -- The stages-of-progress methodology and results from five...

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The new world of welfare

Blank, Rebecca M. (ed.); Haskins, Ron (contributor) - 2001

Machine generated contents note: 1 Welfare Reform: An Agenda for Reauthorization -- Ron Haskins and Rebecca M. Blank -- Part II: The Biggest Issues -- 2 Implementation of the Personal Responsibility -- Act of 1996 -- Thomas L. Gais, Richard P? Nathan, Irene Lurie, -- and Thomas Kaplan --...

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