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Private sector participation and performance of urban water utilities in the People's Republic of China
Jiang, Yi; Zheng, Xiaoting - 2010
In the early 1990s, the People's Republic of China opened its urban water sector to nonstate capital to help meet increasing urban water demand under severe water resource constraints. By 2007, more than 30% of urban water utilities had attracted private sector participation (PSP). To understand...
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Knowledge and governance arrangements in agricultural production : negotiating access to arable land in Zarafshan Valley, Tajikistan
Mandler, Andreas - 2012
always conducive to agricultural production. The present paper inquires into the role of knowledge and governance in local … land area that is suitable for farming. On the other hand, national legislation and local governance arrangements are not … northern Tajikistan. The paper analyses how the individual knowledge of farmers relates to the common knowledge that is …
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Dynamic tax competition and public-sector modernisation
Becker, Daniel Thomas - 2008 - Version 12 Apr. 2008
-sector modernisation is modelled as the accumulation of knowledge (or another accumulated production factor) that serves as an input in the …
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An assessment of the absorptive capacity of agencies involved in the public works sector
Manasan, Rosario G.; Mercado, Ruben G. - 2001
This study evaluates the absorptive capacity of a government agency for domestic and external funds. It takes the case of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), one of the biggest recipients of funds from government and foreign sources. Specifically, the paper a) provides an...
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Rekindling governments from within : getting public sector elite officials to support government reform in Brazil
Pinhanez, Monica - 2010
This paper shows how an elite cadre of public sector officials played a key role in the success of administrative reforms in Brazil's state tax administration bureaus in the 1990s. The success of the reforms strengthened public sector bureaucracies and institutions at all government levels,...
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Common constraints and incentive problems in service delivery
Wild, Leni; Chambers, Victoria; King, Maia; Harris, Dan - 2012
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The effects of sector characteristics on accountability relationships in service delivery
McLoughlin, Claire - 2012
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Construcción de una perspectiva para la gobernancia del sector público
Pordomingo, Eduardo - 2013
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El portafolio de remuneraciones e incentivos para la alta dirección (POREMIN)
Amarfil, Dominga - 2013
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Explaining positive deviance in public sector reforms in development
Andrews, Matt - 2013
Public sector reforms are commonplace in developing countries. Much of the literature about these reforms reflects on their failures. This paper asks about the successes and investigates which of two competing theories best explain why some reforms exhibit such positive deviance. These theories...
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