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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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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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? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate …
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India's economic performance in FY2009/10 shows that the recovery from the slowdown during the global financial crisis … is well underway. India's Gross domestic Product (GDP) growth in FY2009/10 has beaten expectations by reaching 7 … during February-May 2010. India's recovery after the slowdown seems well underway. Growth is projected to climb to 8 …
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The Indian economy recovered from the slowdown at the time of the global financial crisis with strong Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, in particular over the first half of FY2010-11. The agricultural sector bounced back strongly after the 2010 monsoon brought normal levels of rainfall, and...
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In fiscal year 2010-11, India's economy has expanded at a rate close to that observed prior to the global financial … dampening effects on long-term investment, which is sensitive to interest rate expectations. India's economic growth reached 8 … against a 36-currency trade weighted index, and Reserve Bank of India foreign reserves increased to more than …
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In 2011, India's economic growth has slowed to below 7 percent and the stock markets mirrored the weakening economic … demand side, fixed investment and consumption growth slowed. India's exports were growing very strongly through 2011 despite … the worsening economic conditions in Europe, which continued to be India's most important export market. The balance of …
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