This book offers a step forward in finding out how the new decentralized institutional arrangements affect local economic development. In particular, it analyzes how local governments can use their increasing powers and responsibilities to improve productivity and quality of life in their...

Das vorliegende Buch leistet einen Beitrag zur internationalen Partizipationsforschung. Es setzt sich mit dem entsprechenden entwicklungspolitischen Diskurs auseinander und untersucht am Beispiel der zentralasiatischen Republiken Kirgistan und Tadschikistan die Angemessenheit und Anwendbarkeit...

Intro -- Foreword by ADA -- Preface by Microenergy Systems Research Group -- Preface by Daniel M. Kammen -- Preface by the Organizing Team -- Conference Summary -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Part I New Experiences, Simulations and Visions from the Field of AC and DC Minigrids -- 1 Swarm...

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...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. State Restructuring and Regional Convergence: A Review of Theories and Debates -- 3. Indonesia and Its Regional Development Since the 1980s: An Inheritance from the New Order Regime -- 4....

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Local Public Finance in China:An Overview -- Local Expenditures -- Chapter 2: Assessing the Assignment of Expenditure Responsibilities -- Chapter 3: Fiscal Decentralization, Infrastructure Financing, and Regional Disparity...

This volume addresses the issues of financing urban growth of the African continent -- which has the highest urban growth rate on the planet -- in the next decades. Considerable investment will be needed to sustain this level of growth and to clear up accumulated backlogs. At the same time,...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. Implementing Fiscal Decentralization: Data Needs and Availability -- 2. Globalization, Localization, and Statistics: Policies toward Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development -- 3. Bulgaria -- 4. Romania -- 5. Slovak Republic...

The book explores the way in which the state has become commercialised as party and government officials have gone into business and considers the impact that this has had on politics within Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi