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Effective Environmental Protection in the Context of Government Decentralization

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010

China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the economic reforms over the past three decades. This devolution of decision-making to local levels and enterprises has placed environmental stewardship in the hands of local...

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Fiscal Decentralization Improves Social Outcomes When Countries Have Good Governance

Nakatani, Ryota; Zhang, Qianqian; Garcia Valdes, Isaura - 2022

Does fiscal decentralization improve health and educational outcomes? Does this improvement depend on the quality of governance? How do fiscal decentralization and governance interact? We answer these questions through an instrumental variable Tobit analysis of cross-country panel data. We find...

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Effective environmental protection in the context of government decentralization

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011

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Regional Impact Analyses and the Appropriate Treatment of public budget constraints under devolution : an application to Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

Hermannsson, Kristinn; Lisenkova, Katerina; McGregor, … - 2010 - Draft, June 2010

There have been numerous studies of the "impact" of HEIs on their host regions. These have typically focused on the demand for goods and services in the host region. The best of these studies employ regional input-output analyses. However, there has developed a "policy scepticism" about the...

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Effective Environmental Protection in the Context of Government Decentralization

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011

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Poverty Reduction by Decentralisation: A Case for Rural Panchyats in Tamil Nadu

Sivagnanam, K. Jothi - 2007

An attempt has been made in this paper to study the linkage between decentralisation and poverty reduction with special … decentralisation should be designed and implemented so as to achieve required reduction in poverty. In the globalised era … link between economic growth and distributive justice. Decentralisation is linked to poverty reduction in many ways. While …

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Public Employment Services under Decentralization : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mergele, Lukas - 2019

This paper studies whether the decentralization of public employment services (PES) increases job placements among the unemployed. Decentralizing PES has been a widely applied reform used by governments aiming to enhance their efficacy. However, economic theory is ambiguous about its effects,...

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Public employment services under decentralization : evidence from a natural experiment

Mergele, Lukas; Kloß, Michael - 2019

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Territorial capacity and territorial outcomes : local governance and municipal NEET rates in Sweden

Korpi, Tomas; Minas, Renate; Andersson, Lisa - 2024

Youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) is a heterogeneous group in which many run the risk of long-term exclusion from the labor market and from society. Numerous national and international policy initiatives targeting NEETs have therefore been launched, often involving the...

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A Comparative Analysis of Poverty Alleviation Policies and Programs in Latin America and Asia : The Case Study of Elderly People Interventions (2000–2017)

Vasquez, Enrique - 2019

A marked population growth, added to the notorious increase of the older adult population in comparison with the new generations, are both important demographic phenomena in the 21st century. Two continents, Asia and Latin America, two ways of governing and generating public policies. Even so,...

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