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Bahl, Roy W. - 2006

"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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Pakistan - Federal Procurement Baseline Indicator Systems Assessment

World Bank - 2012

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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Bulgaria : Issues in Intergovernmental Relations

World Bank - 2013

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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Symbolic public goods and the coordination of collective action : a comparison of local development in India and Indonesia

Rao, Vijayendra - 2005

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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Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?

Murgai, Rinku - 2005

? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate …

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Toward a microeconomics of growth

Burgess, Robin - 2004

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India - Taking Agriculture to the Market

World Bank - 2012

Policy makers in India recognize the importance o f well-functioning markets to agricultural growth, food security, and …

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Power System Planning in India : Incorporating Environmental Externality Costs and Benefits

World Bank - 2012

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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Priorities for Sustainable Growth : A Strategy for Agriculture Sector Development in Tajikistan, Technical Annex 5. Agriculture Growth Decomposition

World Bank - 2013

Agriculture sector growth has made a powerful contribution to post-war economic recovery in Tajikistan, accounting for approximately one third of overall economic growth from 1998 to 2004. Sector output increased by 65 percent in real terms during this period, and has now returned to the level...

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Priorities for Sustainable Growth : A Strategy for Agriculture Sector Development in Tajikistan, Technical Annex 6. Rural Poverty

World Bank - 2013

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