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decentralization is yet to be followed through with efficient implementation. The Government of Iraq and the World Bank will like to … assess the current status of decentralization and its implications for improving service delivery at the Governorate level …. The objective of the assessment is to take stock of the current state of decentralization in Iraq with a view to …
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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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Despite a world awash with liquidity, large infrastructure supply gaps exist across developing and emerging markets. Infrastructure has been largely decentralized to subnational governments in many countries, and many policymakers are keenly interested in developing subnational bond markets to...
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employed to improve local governance in developing countries: 1) democratic decentralization or devolution; 2) community …
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This paper analyzes the growth pathways of 1,321 regions in the European Union from 2003 to 2017. The aim is to inform integrated territorial investments and other economic development initiatives in lagging regions. Using the definition of lagging regions from the European Commission's Catching...
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capacity of local administrations to operate in the new legal and fiscal environment created by the decentralization reform …
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This report examines the role of infrastructure in explaining why the region lags so far behind the rest of the country. More importantly, it looks at how improved infrastructure may help the region catch up. Infrastructure is examined here through its impact on social as well as economic...
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China - and important trading partner for Russia - is expected to continue its gradual slowdown in 2018 following a stronger …
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