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The digital is pervasive, forming and transforming the ways individual and collective actors organise. We posit digital organising as a key concept that enables researchers and practitioners alike to capture novel forms of organising. Digital organising refers to the collective purposeful...
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Successful reforms need coherent approaches in which a range of stakeholders are willing to share responsibilities and resources in order to achieve the ultimate outcome of poverty reduction in developing countries. This book provides a framework to access intended outcomes generated by...
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Nexus of Fiscal Decentralization and Land Policies - Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong -- Achieving Decentralization Objectives -- 2 Opportunities and Risks of Fiscal Decentralization: A Developing Country...
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The world's urban population doubled between 1970 and 2008, growing from 1.5 billion to 3 billion people. Future world population growth will be concentrated in developing countries-the majority in medium-size and smaller cities and towns. International institutions and governments alike face...
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The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this handbook's coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practice local and...
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Purpose Decentralisation attempts that aim to increase job autonomy do not always succeed. This paper aims to study to …-sectional intervention study. Each employee filled out a questionnaire on job autonomy both before and after the decentralisation process, in … This study found small, but significant, effects of decentralisation attempts on job autonomy. The size of the effects …
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historical overview of developments since the introduction of decentralisation reforms (73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendment … decentralisation, decentralised planning, Panchayats in scheduled areas, sociological aspects of decentralisation, caste, gender and … local democracy, capacity building, ICT for local governance, urban local governance, workfare and decentralisation …
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This book examines how and why local communities have been neglected in development initiatives in South Asia, focusing on Sri Lanka, and assesses the significant support from NGOs in increasing the capacity of local government and in promoting local development. Based on research in the...
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