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Measuring the vulnerability of subnational regions
Naudé, Wim; McGillivray, Mark; Rossouw, Stephanié - 2008
A small but growing literature has been concerned about the economic (and environmental) vulnerability on the level of countries. Less attention is paid to the economic vulnerability of different regions within countries. By focusing on the vulnerability of subnational regions, our paper...
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Regional development and decentralization : two options to overcome lack of funding : 53rd ERSA Congress : Regional integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the world economy : 2...
Jurlina Alibegović, Dubravka; Slijepčević, Sunčana; … - 2013
Decentralization can be generally described as a process in which selected functions are assigned to sub-national units …. The literature identifies number of positive consequences of decentralization which all lead to better satisfaction of … citizens? needs for public services. Although decentralization process in Croatia started more than 10 years ago, it still has …
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Regional capital no more : how the reform of the territorial government has marginalized Polish middle-sized cities
Cieślak, Borys; Nagler, Paula; Oort, Frank van - 2023
Among Polish cities facing socio-economic difficulties are the former regional capitals which lost their administrative status due to the 1998 reform, reducing the number of regions from 49 to 16. Making use of this quasiexperimental setting, we assess the impact of the loss of administrative...
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"Urbanization and decentralization : the changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services" : paper for 54th European regional Science Association Con...
Braun, Joachim von - 2014
"Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services … urbanization and decentralization. Ever stronger linkages between urban and rural areas represent a challenge for sustainable … them. This gives an important potential role to decentralization of government, and decentralization of services in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492002
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Verticle decentralization and urban service delivery in South Africa: Does politics matter?
Cameron, Robert - 2012
This study examines the role of politics on decentralization and service delivery in South Africa, with a specific … focus on Johannesburg and Cape Town. The research delineates how national decentralization has affected service delivery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319936
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Vertical decentralization and urban service delivery in South Africa : does politics matter?
Cameron, Robert - 2012
This study examines the role of politics on decentralization and service delivery in South Africa, with a specific … focus on Johannesburg and Cape Town. The research delineates how national decentralization has affected service delivery … government steer money towards Cape Town because they know it can deliver on its obligations. -- decentralization ; party …
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Decentralisation to promote Regional Development in Indonesia
Vujanovic, Petar Declan - 2017
In 1998 Indonesia embarked on an ambitious course of decentralisation. Over a period of a few years, facilitated by financial transfers from the central government, responsibility for many public services and administrative tasks were devolved to local authorities. This process is continuing....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700222
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Decentralised development co-operation : unlocking the potential of cities and regions
OECD - 2019
The Addis Ababa Action Agenda raises the urgency to address growing financing and capacity needs at all levels of government in developing countries (para. 34) while the 2030 Agenda calls to “localise” the SDGs. In its High Level Communiqué of 31 October 2017, the DAC stressed that...
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Transformation of the economic role of local self-government in low-urbanized territories in Ukraine : initial conditions and social perception
Hlynskyy, Nazar; Krykavskyy, Yevhen; Hirna, Olha; … - In: International journal of management and economics 58 (2022) 3, pp. 267-278
communities' development in Ukraine. It has been proved that the decentralization of power changes the role of local government …
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