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Sustainability assessment of the public interventions supported by the ReSTART project in the CITI4GREEN framework
Cavalli, Laura; Alibegovic, Mia; Vaccari, Davide; … - 2022
-START "Territorial Resilience of the Central Apennines Earthquake Reconstruction'' assessing their impacts on the sustainability … sustainability - environmental, social, and economic - are embraced by the public interventions. However, clear priority has been … given to social and environmental sustainability. The economic dimension results under-represented. Additional policies are …
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Assessing the solvency of virtual asset service providers : are current standards sufficient?
Saggese, Pietro; Segalla, Esther; Sigmund, Michael; … - 2023
Entities like centralized cryptocurrency exchanges fall under the business category of virtual asset service providers (VASPs). As any other enterprise, they can become insolvent. VASPs enable the exchange, custody, and transfer of cryptoassets organized in wallets across distributed ledger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014390418
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Provision of public goods in a federalist country : Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities (administration, public safety, education, culture and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892461
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Can bottom-up institutional reform improve service delivery?
Molina, Ezequiel - 2014
This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286688
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Political parties, clientelism, and bureaucratic reform
Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip - 2015
The challenge of public administration reform is well-known: politicians often have little interest in the efficient implementation of government policy. Using new data from 439 World Bank public sector reform loans in 109 countries, we demonstrate that such reforms are significantly less likely...
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Trust, collaboration, and policy attitudes in the public sector
Keefer, Philip; Perilla, Sergio; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2021
This paper examines new data on public sector employees from 18 Latin American countries to shed light on the role of trust in the performance of government agencies. We developed an original survey taken during the first COVID-19 wave that includes randomized experiments with pandemic-related...
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Do civil servants respond to behavioral interventions? : a field experiment
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Zamora, Paula - 2021
Introducing financial incentives to increase productivity in the public sector tends to be politically and bureaucratically cumbersome, particularly in developing countries. Behavioral interventions could be a low-cost alternative, both politically and financially, although evidence of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668506
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Monitoring public investment : the impact of MapaRegalías in Colombia
Lauletta, Maximiliano; Rossi, Martín Antonio; Cruz … - 2019
This paper analyzes the impact of Mapa- Regalías on efficiency in the execution of public investment projects in Colombia. MapaRegalías is an online platform that displays geo-referenced information and data on royalties coming from the extractives sector. The purpose of the platform is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127077
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Monitoreando la inversión pública : el impacto de MapaRegalías en Colombia
Lauletta, Maximiliano; Rossi, Martín Antonio; Cruz … - 2019
This paper analyzes the impact of MapaRegalías on efficiency in the execution of public investment projects in Colombia. MapaRegalías is an online platform that displays geo-referenced information and data on royalties coming from the extractives sector. The purpose of the platform is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127096
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The contribution of the European cohesion policy to the 2030 Agenda: an application to the Autonomous Region of Sardinia
Cavalli, Laura; Sanna, Sandro; Alibegovic, Mia; Arras, … - 2020
methodology that evaluates the sustainability of the operational programmes co-financed by the Union with reference to the 169 …
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