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"While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization often struggle with decisions about the essential components...
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The Baseline Indicators (BLIs) assessment has been conducted by the Development Partners and the Government of Pakistan as a precursor to carrying forward the Government's efforts to upgrade the Country Procurement Systems (CPS) to international standards and to help it assess the level and type...
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Municipalities play a large role in the Bulgarian public sector. They provide primary and secondary education. They own and operate about one-third of the hospitals in the country. Until 2003, they administered all the major social assistance programs (except pensions and unemployment...
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explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during … at the beginning of the survey period by 2004. This all-India trajectory masks widely varying trends across states …
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understanding collective action. He illustrates the point by contrasting how conceptions of nationalism in Indonesia and India …-help) that was both internalized and coercively enforced. India emphasized democratic decentralization through the panchayat …-efficiency tradeoff. Indonesia has delivered public services much more efficiently than India did, but at the cost of democratic freedoms …
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"This paper reviews the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural poor and examines some of the … key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank … 6,000 households in India undertaken by the authors. The main findings and implications of the paper are as follows …
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? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate …
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This paper has been prepared in accordance with the terms of reference for a study on power system planning in India … as in India and compares the figures available. It also comments on the validity of the external cost estimates available … and the use made of them in power system planning and regulation both outside and inside India. The structure is as …
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