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Local Government Proliferation and Fiscal Efficiency: Evidence From Ghana

open access: yesGrowth and Change, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In many active decentralized nations in the developing world, the number of sub‐national administrative units has continued to increase over the past few decades. In most cases, this churning of more decentralized units does not go without contestation, with critics arguing that they are not done in the true spirit of decentralization but ...
Zurikanen Iddrisu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial Modeling of Flood Hazard in Addis Ababa Using Geographic Information System (GIS) and Information Gain Ratio (IGR) Method

open access: yesJournal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 18, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Floods are one of nature's most disturbing catastrophes, resulting in infrastructure damage, property devastation, and mortality. In Addis Ababa, flooding has significantly impacted residents and caused millions' worth of property damage in the last decade alone. It is continuously threatening and affecting city residents.
Desta Jula Bekalo   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

More Than Rising Water: Representing Climate Change and Urban Transformation in Bangkok Wakes to Rain

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 2, November 2025.
Abstract Climate change is a phenomenon of immense and disorienting complexity which challenges the imagination and complicates its representation in literature. Many critics have pointed out the dominance of universalist and anthropocentric crisis narratives in climate fiction, which focus on imagined future events in North America or Europe and ...
Klara Machata
wiley   +1 more source

Rural Citizen Satisfaction With Drinking Water Supply: Public Policy Imperatives for a South African Municipality

open access: yesJournal of Public Affairs, Volume 25, Issue 4, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Many rural households in developing countries face serious water supply challenges, which make achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 a pipe dream. Radical policy interventions are required to improve access to a safely managed water supply, yet evidence‐based public policymaking is usually lacking.
Sinethemba B. Mpisane   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of antimicrobial resistance patterns and genetic mutations in Helicobacter pylori from West Bengal, India depicting escalating clarithromycin and high levofloxacin resistance

open access: yesGut Pathogens
Background The growing resistance of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) to antibiotics poses a significant global health challenge, particularly in developing regions where infection rates are high, and routine antibiotic susceptibility surveillance is ...
Sangita Paul   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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