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Geographically, Chongqing is strategically positioned as a gateway to China's west, a key connection in the Yangtze … river economic belt, and a strategic base for China's belt and road initiative. Over the past two decades, Chongqing has …
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Cities can increase economic growth and participate in global economic flows by acting as hubs or gateways to regional corridors, that are supported by three dimensions of connectivity: physical (infrastructure) connectivity, digital connectivity, and economic integration. Integrating these...
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The overview over the next pages summarizes key themes and findings from on-going technical assistance provided to the Kenyan water sector by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) of the World Bank’s Water Global Practice. Kenya’s new Constitution (Constitution of Kenya 2010) came into...
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Located in South Asia, Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. Pakistan is divided into four provinces, a state and federally and provincially administrated territories. The country is exposed to several types of natural disasters, prominent among which are earthquakes, floods,...
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Moldova's public expenditures on education as a share of GDP and total public sector spending are higher than in most countries in the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Moldova's challenges to improve the quality and efficiency of education...
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Decentralization and Deconcentration) in Cambodia and describes how their design, implementation, and institutional arrangements can be …
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ongoing decentralization process. The note recognizes the potential of decentralization to enhance local service delivery, if … done well. Hence, the policy note assesses the current state of decentralization in Togo, with a specific focus on … decentralization from central government to communes, the lowest level of government, and front-line for local service delivery. The …
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. This report analyzes recent trends of the fiscal decentralization process in Peru and presents a set of reform options … designed to harvest the envisaged efficiency and equity gains in service delivery that the fiscal decentralization was expected …
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Myanmar's decentralization of governance, financing and service delivery is taking place against aparticularly …
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This policy note presents the main features of the fiscal decentralization framework in Croatia, analyzed in reference …
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