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Who Should Be at the Top of Bottom-Up Development? A Case Study of the National Rural Livelihoods Mission in Rajasthan, India
Joshi, Shareen - 2017
It is widely acknowledged that top-down support is essential for bottom-up participatory projects to be effectively implemented at scale. However, which level of government, national or sub-national, should be given the responsibility to implement such projects is an open question, with wide...
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Falling short : a global survey of electricity tariff design
Foster, Vivien; Witte, Samantha - 2020
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of electricity pricing practices and tariff structure design in more than 60 developed and developing countries worldwide as of 2015-16. It evaluates the performance of electricity tariff designs according to a variety of important dimensions, notably...
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Managing South Africa's exposure to Eskom : how to evaluate the credit risk from the sovereign guarantees?
Bachmair, Fritz Florian; Aslan, Cigdem; Maseko, Mkhulu - 2019
The South African government offers various support mechanisms to support Eskom, the state-owned electric utility, and the independent power producers in providing low-cost electricity, including credit and payment guarantees. Guarantees constitute contingent liabilities to the government and...
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Why South Africa is cheap for the rich and expensive for the poor : reconsidering the Balassa-Samuelson effect
Dadam, Vincent; Hanusch, Marek; Viegi, Nicola - 2019
This paper investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade, while skill intensive service sectors have had...
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Wan Lis, Fulap Stori : Leasing on Epi Island, Vanuatu
Porter, Raewyn - 2010
research will be repeated on the island of Tanna. To inform the broader context of land leasing in Vanuatu, JBE, in … collaboration with the government of Vanuatu, has begun collecting and analyzing government land-leasing data. This process … commenced in late 2009 and will ultimately make it possible for leasing patterns in each of the island studies to be placed in a …
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Does private sector participation improve performance in electricity and water distribution?
Gassner, Katharina - 2009
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The Incidence of Subsidies to Residential Public Services in Argentina : The Subsidy System in 2014 and Some Alternatives
Lakner, Christoph - 2016
More than a decade of energy and transport subsidies have weakened Argentina's fiscal capacity. Following the 2001 …
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Decentralization and Subnational Service Delivery in Iraq : Status and Way Forward
World Bank - 2016
Since the Constitution (2005) provided for decentralizing powers and functions for the Governorates, the government of Iraq has enacted several legal, policy, and institutional reform initiatives, the intent of which is to shift political and administrative powers and responsibilities from the...
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Strengthening Public Services in the Context of Fragility : What Works for Strengthening Public Service Training in Post-Conflict Environments?
World Bank - 2016
Limited state capacity to carry out core government and service delivery functions poses a major constraint in post … sector capacity; while a key choice involves investing in longer and more in-depth or shorter-term training. To deliver …
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