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The paper is a follow-up to an article published in Technique Financière et Developpement in 2000 (see the appendix to the hardcopy version), which portrayed the first results of a new strategy in the field of development finance implemented in South-East Europe. This strategy consists in...
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In deliberation-minded and civil society-oriented scholarship, think tanks are relevant because of their constructive role in policy-related knowledge generation. They are held to establish and enable expertise from diverse stakeholders and multiple angles, and to successfully feed the policy...
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, strong arguments that the national level still plays an important role for the governance of border regions. The question is … aim of this paper is to provide an exploratory typology of domestic governance settings. The underlying empirical study … shows a large diversity of governance patterns in thirteen European countries. A synthetic typology reveals five approaches …
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governance in designing processes, creating, supporting and managing networks, creating arenas for strategy formation, nourishing … interdependencies in their economies, infrastructure, and natural resources, but they are not linked well in terms of governance … governance strategies for such megaregions. As we have noted elsewhere, collaborative and networked processes can do many of the …
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This paper compares and contrasts the nature and scope of change in the domestic climate governance of India and South …, while more simple networks could be identified in India. Using data from an expert survey and from semi …-loop learning. Differences exist for more specific parts of climate governance. Three resulting hypotheses give conditions for the …
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We explain persistent differences in cultural traits of immigrant groups with the presence of community leaders. Leaders influence the cultural traits of their community, which have an impact on the group's earnings. They determine whether a community will be more assimilated and wealthier or...
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Leadership' is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent … studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and other studies … complex multi-agent leadership interventions - not individual heroes. …
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Public sector reforms are commonplace in developing countries. Much of the literature about these reforms reflects on their failures. This paper asks about the successes and investigates which of two competing theories best explain why some reforms exhibit such positive deviance. These theories...
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Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....
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abridged version of the story offers instructors a classroom case to discuss leaders and leadership in governance reform. …
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