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Financing Rural Development for a Harmonious Society in China : Recent Reforms in Public Finance and Their Prospects

Fock, Achim; Wong, Christine - 2012

The Government of China has placed strong emphasis on addressing problems related to agriculture, farmers, and rural society, with the development of a "new socialist countryside" designated as a top priority for the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2006-2010). The financing of public services in rural...

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Labor Markets and Income Generation in Rural Argentina

Verner, Dorte - 2012

This paper addresses three areas of the rural labor market-employment, labor wages, and agriculture producer incomes. Findings show that the poor allocate a lower share of their labor to farm sectors than the nonpoor do, but still around 70 percent work in agriculture, and the vast majority of...

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Should African Rural Development Strategies Depend on Smallholder Farms? An Exploration of the Inverse Productivity Hypothesis

Larson, Donald F.; Otsuka, Keijiro; Matsumoto, Tomoya - 2013

In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo economies of scale -- a premise supported by the often...

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Impact Evaluation of a Large-scale Rural Sanitation Project in Indonesia

Cameron, Lisa; Shah, Manisha; Olivia, Susan - 2013

Lack of sanitation and poor hygiene behavior cause a tremendous disease burden among the poor. This paper evaluates the impact of the Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing project in Indonesia, where about 11 percent of children have diarrhea in any two-week period and more than 33,000...

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Centralization, Decentralization, and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa

Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Yilmaz, Serdar - 2012

the current intergovernmental structure by examining the type and degree of decentralization in five countries … findings show that external conflicts constitute a major roadblock to decentralization in the region. …

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Decentralization and the Provision of Public Services : Framework and Implementation

Kim, Aehyung - 2012

This paper discusses decentralization (administrative, fiscal and political) of government in public service provision …. It aims to facilitate understanding among practitioners, policy makers, and scholars about what decentralization entails … in practice compared to theory. A review of the empirical literature and experience of decentralization is presented. The …

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Decentralization, Economic Development, and Growth in Turkish Provinces

Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Yilmaz, Serdar - 2012

There have been important developments in the decentralization of the government structure in Turkey since the early … economic effects of government decentralization from both developed and developing countries, these effects have not been … recent reform efforts. They then provide an empirical analysis of the effects of decentralization in Turkish provinces using …

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Endowments, Location or Luck? Evaluating the Determinants of Sub-National Growth in Decentralized Indonesia

McCulloch, Neil; Sjahrir, Bambang Suharnoko - 2012

Indonesia's "big bang" decentralization in 2001 shifted much of the responsibility for local economic development from …

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Geographic Inequity in a Decentralized Anti-Poverty Program : A Case Study of China

Ravallion, Martin - 2012

The central governments of many developing countries have chosen to decentralize their anti-poverty programs, in the expectation that local agents are better informed about local needs. The paper shows that this potential advantage of decentralized eligibility criteria can come at a large cost,...

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Designing Economic Instruments for the Environment in a Decentralized Fiscal System

Alm, James; Banzhaf, H. Spencer - 2012

may be created and addressed by local governments, and it does not consider the implications of decentralization for the … design of economic instruments targeted at environmental problems. This paper examines the implications of decentralization …

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