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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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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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