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This paper describes a conceptual framework for developing new distribution structures. In real life decision‐making, optimal regions to locate a distribution center take into account both quantitative and qualitative factors. An adjusted kuehn‐Hamburger model is suggested to minimize...
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Examines variations in the nature of hospitality operations from a strategic perspective. Operational strategy is regarded as a response to environmental risk. Looks at various ways in which organizations have decentralized their operations in response to environmental conditions. Hospitality...
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Extensions/applications/revisions of the Marxian vision of socialism can broadly be categorized into two polar strands: the centralized and the decentralized strands of socialist economic systems. Explores the main postulates of a decentralized version of a socialist economic system as provided...
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We construct and derive the properties of an estimator of welfarewhich takes advantage of the detailed nature of information about living standards available in small household surveys and the comprehensive coverage of a census. By combining the strengths of each, our estimator can be used at a...
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We study two aspects of globalization. It allows a decision-maker to go beyond his own local experience and to learn from other decision-makers in addressing common problems. This improves the identification and diffusion of best practices. It also provides extra information to `markets' that...
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The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
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presented here seeks to answer two questions: “Is decentralization a suitable tool to appease separatist movements and prevent a … a secession threat can be used by a minority region to gain a higher level of decentralization than the larger part of … reduction or on the improvement of governance, especially where they are not accompanied by (additional) decentralization. – It …
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Исследуются основные модели налогово-бюджетного федерализма, выделяются их основные черты, достоинства и недостатки. Рассматривается проблема разделения...
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For almost two decades, starting from the early ‘90s, Italy experienced the strongest wave of decentralization reforms … situation of “fiscal federalism” in Italy before the crisis, summarizing the decentralization process in the ‘90s, its …
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introducing the analytical framework of social knowledge, and examines the issues of decentralization in societies with low stocks …
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