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Decentralisation, which sends power and resources from the Central to local governments, comes with several theoretical promises. One such promise is the improvement in local service provision. However, achieving these theoretical promises of decentralization has been a big challenge in most...
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Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported … corruption. There is near consensus, however, that India has had limited success in reducing poverty and enhancing human capital …
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India. It has also unfavorably affected the realization of the full potential of the urban sector's contribution to national … gross domestic product in India. From this perspective, by considering the population in Class I cities (cities with more … size of urban populations of large cities in India. Secondly, it assesses the status of class I cities in India as per the …
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The race towards smart city status, influenced by the perceived benefits of innovation and sustainability in smart city concepts, has engendered the need to measure the smartness/smart development levels of developing countries' cities to improve upon urban infrastructures. However, various...
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This paper investigates the impact urbanization, industrialization, corruption, human development, energy consumption, and foreign direct investment (FDI) on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of 61 developing economies of the global south region of Asia, Africa, and Latin America during the period...
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Why do different services encounter particular constraints and opportunities in their delivery? This working paper identifies a set of characteristics that can be used to differentiate between services, and between functions within them, and asks how these defining or ‘fixed' characteristics...
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The focus of this paper is on improving governance through the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in …
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