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The Effectiveness of Provisions and Quality of Practices Concerning Public Participation in the Eia Procedures in Italy and the UK
Del Furia, Luca; Wallace-Jones, Jane - 1998
The Environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedure foresees that the information on the environmental effects of a … specific activity are used to support the decision on whether to give a project consent, and has the ability to ensure no more … than that the decision taken is an informed one. As one of the principle groups of actors in the procedure, it can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210010
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Aid, growth and devolution
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009
. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887528
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Achievement and challenges : 30 years of housing reforms in the People's Republic of China
Gao, Lu - 2010
In the last three decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has managed to replace its welfare-based urban housing system with a market-based housing provision scheme. With such significant housing policy changes, the PRC has successfully expanded urban home ownership and impressively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003984706
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Impacts of the global financial crisis on small and medium enterprises in the People’s Republic of China
Xiangfeng, Liu - 2009
This paper conducts an in-depth analysis of the impacts of the global financial crisis on the People's Republic of China's (PRC's) small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It also provides relevant policy suggestions at the end. First, this paper reviews the impacts of the 1997 Asian financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003928006
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Decentralization and foreign aid effectiveness : do aid modality and federal design matter in poverty alleviation?
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2010
This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...
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"A flop or a success?" : an evaluation of the welfare impacts of the 6-3-3-4 education system in Nigeria
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2015
The need for graduates who would be productive citizens able to contribute significantly to the Nigerian economy led to the overhaul of the old education system 6-5-4 and the implementation of the 6-3-3-4 system, with its first set of graduates from secondary schools in 1988. The main objective...
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Cash transfers and child labour
Hoop, Jacobus de; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2013
Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...
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Assessing the effectiveness of World Bank investments : the gender dimension
Lauterbach, Claire; Zuckerman, Elaine - 2013
Today it is widely acknowledged that increasing the gender sensitivity of development aid increases its effectiveness. This report evaluates the extent to which the World Bank integrates gender concerns into its policies and investments, pointing out structural, financial and policy gaps that...
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Targeting ultra-poor households in Honduras and Peru
Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram - 2013
For policy purposes, it is important to understand the relative efficacy of various methods to target the poor. Recently, participatory methods have received particular attention. We examine the effectiveness of a hybrid two-step process that combines a participatory wealth ranking and a...
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Protecting child nutritional status in the aftermath of a financial crisis : evidence from Indonesia
Giles, John; Satriawan, Elan - 2014
In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper exploits heterogeneity in duration of program...
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