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On the Price of Decentralization in Decentralized Detection
Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information ...
Bruce, Huang, Wang, I-Hsiang
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Decentralized list scheduling [PDF]
Annals of Operations Research, 2012 Classical list scheduling is a very popular and efficient technique for scheduling jobs in parallel and distributed platforms. It is inherently centralized. However, with the increasing number of processors, the cost for managing a single centralized list becomes too prohibitive.
Tchiboukdjian, Marc +2 more
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Decentralization in – And of- education
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013 AbstractDecentralization and centralization of Education both seem to be related to “democracy” which is understood as a way of life. Yet, it is also related to some other factors and forces: such as the level of literacy, economic conditions, traditions and types of government.
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What we talk about when we talk about decentralization? Insights from post-revolution Tunisia
L’Année du Maghreb, 2017 This article explores the language of decentralization policies in post-revolution Tunisia. It argues that international financial institutions mobilize a particular language about decentralization to create new clients and reinvent themselves in a ...
Lana Salman
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Fiscal descentralization and the quality of government: evidence from panel data [PDF]
In this paper we focus on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and government quality. In a sample of 29 developing and developed countries over the period 1984-1997, fiscal decentralization has a positive effect on institutional quality but ...
Andreas Kyriacou, Oriol Roca sagalés
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Constitutions, regulations, and taxes: Contradictions of different aspects of decentralization [PDF]
The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, postconstitutional regulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization - using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a ...
Libman, Alexander
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BRICS Law Journal, 2017 In this article the decentralization process and decentralization method are reviewed. Decentralization is the process of redistributing or dispersing functions, powers, people or things away from a central location or authority.
D. Bunikowski, K. Ivanova
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Decentralization and Foreign Aid Effectiveness: Do Aid Modality and Federal Design Matter in Poverty Alleviation? [PDF]
This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal ...
Christian Lessmann, Gunther Markwardt
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Decentralization and good governance: The case of Indonesia [PDF]
Indonesia began a process of rapid government decentralization in 1999 from a formerly strong centralized government structure. I review the history of decentralization in Indonesia and assess how Indonesia has fared in pursuing a decentralization policy
Green, Keith
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Fiscal Decentralization and the Efficiency of Public Service Delivery
OECD Fiscal Federalism Studies, 2015 This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It uses a stochastic frontier method to estimate time-varying efficiency coefficients and analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization on those ...
M. Sow, I. Razafimahefa
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