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World Bank - 2025

Africa has significant potential to improve its climate-smart sustainable development by focusing on the Blue Economy. However, efforts to reach this potential are stymied by poor access to relevant data and knowledge due to inadequate historical investments in technology and institutional...

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Sequencing fiscal decentralization

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 of decentralization, including the order of an introduction of …

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How-to Note : A Framework to Assess Administrative Decentralization

World Bank - 2012

purpose of this note is to clarify components of a well-designed administrative decentralization system and to assist task … teams and stakeholders to assess administrative decentralization effort in any given country. There are two main components … of an administrative decentralization system: discretion allowed to the local government to direct the business of the …

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Colombia - Decentralization : Options and Incentives for Efficiency - Sector Annexes

World Bank - 2012

This report is intended to support the analysis and implementation of reforms aimed at a strengthening of the intergovernmental system in Colombia. In mid-2007 congress approved a legislative act as constitutional amendment that increases the level of the main transfer to sub-national...

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How to Measure Decentralization

World Bank - 2024

As decentralization is a cross-cutting concept, there are many ways to measure it. This short note aims to unpack the … concepts of decentralization by conducting a global literature review. It starts with a review of the traditional ways of … approaching decentralization and the history of its development, including arguments on the merits and limitations of each method …

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Analyzing the distributional impact of reforms : a practitioners' guide to pension, health, labor markets, public sector downsizing, taxation, decentralization and macroeconomic mo...

Coudouel, Aline (contributor); … - 2006

The analysis of the distributional impact of policy reforms on the well-being or welfare of different stakeholder groups, particularly on th e poor and vulnerable, has an important role in the elaboration and implementation of poverty reduction strategies in developing countries. In recent years...

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Decentralization and biodiversity conservation

Lutz, Ernst (contributor); Caldecott, Julian (contributor) - 1996

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Tobacco Pack Information

World Bank - 2012

There are an estimated 1.2 billion regular smokers in the world today, approximately one third of the global population over the age of 15, and the numbers are rising (World Health Organization 2002). Studies show that many smokers still do not know that tobacco causes disease and premature...

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Ecuador : The Faces of Informality (Las Caras de La Informalidad)

World Bank - 2013

Informality hampers economic performance at both macro and micro levels. High degree of informality and low economic growth tend to go hand-in-hand, although evidence shows that the relationship likely comes from common determinants of both. Informality in Ecuador remains high compared to other...

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Yugoslavia : development with decentralization

Dubey, Vinod (ed.) - 1975

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