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Les transferts de competences vus depuis la Roumanie
Matei, Ani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
processes of decentralization and deconcentration. The relation between decentralization of administration and competence … premises of competence transfer in Romania, the dimension of decentralization in the Romanian Administrative Space, the legal … and institutional mechanisms of competence transfer and the decentralization of public services. The Romanian experiences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562652
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International Experiences with Decentralisation
Surie, Mandakini Devasher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Effective decentralisation requires the clear assignment of duties and responsibilities (functions); sufficient resources (funds) and staff (functionaries) needed to carry out public duties at each level of government. The 3Fs as they are commonly known are critical to the design of any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529222
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An overview of decentralization and local governance in Eastern and Southern Africa
Kundishora, Phillip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper reviews the decentralization process in Eastern and Southern Africa. It begins with an analysis of the socio …-economic as well as the political challenges confronting most countries in the region. This analysis places the decentralization … decentralization and local democracy in order to come up with a clear understanding of the different forms of decentralization as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055511
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Governance,Governmentality and Governability: Constraints and Possibilities of Decentralization in South Asia
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
semblance to democratic decentralization will fall short of delivering welfare enhancing outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122827
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Welfare Effects of Water Pricing in Germany
Müller, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The observed two-part tariff price structure (consisting of a lump-sum price and a linear marginal price) for drinking water in Germany does not reflect the cost structure reported in the literature. Recovering marginal costs from a sample of 251 German counties, we see that there are positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259053
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Bringing Citizens Back In: Renewing Public Service Regulation
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This essay concerns the ways in which public services – particularly household services such as communications, energy, water and transportation – have been regulated and deregulated, and analyses what consequences this has for users and citizens. Much of the deregulation of public services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283800
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Ethnic minority children’s access to public services in Vietnam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study provides an analysis of access to public services of ethnic minority children. The main data sets are from a Baseline Survey of the Program 135-II in 2007, Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys 2004 and 2006, and the 15-percent sample of the Population and Housing Census 2009. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323458
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Choosing the extent of private participation in public services: A computable general equilibrium perspective
Chisari, Omar O.; Lambardi, Germán D.; Romero, Carlos A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
What determines the propensity to reduce or widen the extent of public ownership? Why has there been a tendency to privatise and concede public utilities during the nineties? The answers to these questions depend both on macroeconomic and microeconomic considerations. And correct answers could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005668426
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The role of household income and public provision of social services in satisfaction of basic needs in Pakistan: A cross district analysis
Siddiqui, Rizwana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Is household income enough for human development or government should heed to direct provision of social services to improve capabilities of individual. The former emphasized by the World Bank and later by the UNDP. This paper tests the argument by estimating a basic need policy model for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620132
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Strategic Japanese business visions – possible transposes in public services
Grigorescu, Adriana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Frequently, the „Japanese miracle” was a subject of discussion. The book „The Strategist Brain Power – The Business Art in Japan”, by Kenichi Ohmae (Japan, 1975) when the business environment was confronted with serious problems. The book brings, also in Romania (1998), a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645125