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The Slovak Republic as one of the transitive economics had implemented several reforms in the beginning of the 21st century. One of them, perhaps the widest, was the public administration reform, which includes also other partial reforms as public finance reform and tax reform. To complete all...

This paper examines practices and approaches taken by local governments in Indonesia as a response to the issue of street vendors as an example of the informal economic actor. The paper aims to unravel the conceptual understanding of the economic role of street vendors. Using case studies and...

This paper reviews some early interim and full PRSPs for countries with which the authors worked during 1999-2000 (Uganda, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Mozambique, Mali and The Gambia). The purpose of the review is to compare and contrast how the PRSP process was established there. It finds that...

This study examines the short-run effects and dynamics of exogenous shocks to the regular budgets of the local authorities in Israel with emphasis on the reduction in government participation and taking into account the heterogeneity of the local authorities. To accomplish this, the study uses a...

Control over natural resource revenues is a contentious, politically divisive issue in most developing countries-especially for oil production. A typical policy response of the center in such cases has been to introduce revenue sharing arrangements. Such measures have generally not assuaged the...