Search Results - subject:"Devolution"

Making Devolution Work for Service Delivery in Kenya

Muwonge, Abdu - 2022

Kenya adopted a new constitution and began the process of devolution in 2010, ceding many formerly national …, and an elected County Assembly that legislates and provides oversight. Making Devolution Work for Service Delivery in … Kenya takes stock of how devolution has affected the delivery of basic services to Kenyan citizens nine years after the …

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On the effects of intergovernmental grants: a survey

Lago, Manuel E.; Lago Peñas, Santiago; … - 2022

This paper offers a comprehensive and updated review of the effects of intergovernmental grants. We focus on the main findings in the existing literature on the effects of intergovernmental grants on tax policy and choices, expenditure decisions, fiscal stability and behavioral choices, and...

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Challenges and Potentialities for Implementing Social Protection Responses to Emergency Through Decentralized Administration : Lessons from Brazil's Auxilio Emergencial

Lara de Arruda, Pedro - 2022

With the advent of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Brazil has come out with one of the fastest and most generous social protection responses globally. Auxilio Emergencial (AE's) operation is in contrast to that of regular social protection programs due to its highly centralized setup with...

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Administrative Decentralization and Climate Change : Concepts, Experience, and Action

Smoke, Paul - 2022

International and domestic efforts to respond to the severe global challenge of climate change are on the rise and evolving. Despite the importance of action from multiple levels of government, public sector reforms to address climate change and to promote decentralization and or...

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Blockchain & decentralized finance : opportunities for sustainable development : proceedings of the 2nd symposium smart:sustainable

Severengiz, Semih (ed.) - Digital Symposium "Smart:sustainable" <2., 2021, Online> - 2022 - 1st edition

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Austerity in the United Kingdom and its legacy : lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

Arrieta, Tania - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 33 (2022) 2, pp. 238-255

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Is flat for everyone? : evidence from a field experiment of structural decentralization

Lee, Michael Y.; Green, Paul - 2022

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On the quality of cryptocurrency markets : centralized versus decentralized exchanges

Barbon, Andrea; Ranaldo, Angelo - 2022 - This draft: April 2022

Despite the growing adoption of decentralized exchanges, little is known about their market quality. Using a comprehensive dataset, we compare decentralized blockchain-based venues (DEXs) to centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs) assessing two aspects of market quality: price efficiency and market...

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A survey comparing centralized and decentralized electricity markets

Ahlqvist, Victor; Holmberg, Pär; Tangerås, Thomas P. - In: Energy strategy reviews 40 (2022), pp. 1-14

This paper surveys the literature relevant for comparing centralized and decentralized wholesale electricity markets. Under a centralized design, producers submit detailed cost data to the system operator the day before delivery, who then decides how much to produce for each generation unit....

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Decentralised Finance's Unregulated Governance : Minority Rule in the Digital Wild West

Barbereau, Tom; Smethurst, Reilly; Papageorgiou, Orestis; … - 2022

Decentralised finance (DeFi) is a category of unlicensed, unregulated, and non-custodial financial services that utilise public, distributed ledgers like Ethereum. The Bloomberg Galaxy DeFi Index, launched in August 2021, includes nine Ethereum-based projects – non-custodial exchanges as well...

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