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Incidence de la décentralisation sur l’investissement local au Bénin

Revue des Etudes Multidisciplinaires en Sciences Economiques et Sociales, 2018
L’un des objectifs fondamentaux de la décentralisation est le développement à la base, à travers l’investissement local (Lemieux, 2001). Différents travaux (Besson, 2002 ; Tsobzé et al, 2007) convergent sur l’idée que l’investissement des collectivités ...
Bernard Godonou HOUNMENOU
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Reconfiguring Fresh Produce Supply Chains in Response to Drought Risk: Evidence From the U.S. Broccoli Market

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drought is among the most severe and persistent threats to food supply chains, and relocating production to less drought‐prone regions offers a strategy to reduce this risk. This is particularly relevant for fresh vegetables, which are highly water‐intensive, yet drought‐driven reconfiguration strategies remain understudied.
Bingyan Dai, Miguel I. Gómez, Harry M. Kaiser   +2 more
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Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
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Optimising Fiscal Decentralisation: Addressing Financial Management Challenges in Gorontalo Province

Policy & Governance Review
Fiscal decentralisation is the basic capital to reach better governance, regional development, and fiscal autonomy. This paper discusses financial management barriers and opportunities in the Gorontalo Province, a region with low fiscal autonomy, as ...
Danial Ibrahim, Asna Aneta, Eduart Wolok, Yanti Aneta   +3 more
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Toward Predictable Nanomedicine: Current Forecasting Frameworks for Nanoparticle–Biology Interactions

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Predictive models successfully screen nanoparticles for toxicity and cellular uptake. Yet, complex biological dynamics and sparse, nonstandardized data limit their accuracy. The field urgently needs integrated artificial intelligence/machine learning, systems biology, and open‐access data protocols to bridge the gap between materials science and safe ...
Mariya L. Ivanova, Michael Nicholls, Nicola Russo, Gueorgui Mihaylov, Konstantin Nikolic   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Autonomous Large Language Model‐Agent Framework for Transparent and Local Time Series Forecasting

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Architecture of the proposed large language model (LLM)‐based agent framework for autonomous time series forecasting in thermal power generation systems. The framework operates through a vertical pipeline initiated by natural language queries from users, which are processed by the LLM Agent Core powered by Llama.cpp and a ReAct loop with persistent ...
William Gouvêa Buratto, Gabriel Villarrubia Gonzalez, Ademir Nied, Laio Oriel Seman, Anne Carolina Rodrigues Klaar, Stefano Frizzo Stefenon   +5 more
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Decentralization for improving the provision of public services in developing countries: A critical review

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2020
Decentralisation, which sends power and resources from the Central to local governments, comes with several theoretical promises. One such promise is the improvement in local service provision.
Christopher Dick-Sagoe
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Fiscal Decentralisation: The Swiss Case [PDF]

Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2003
Switzerland provides a potential laboratory for testing various hypotheses connected with tax competition because of its extremely decentralized fiscal system. Twenty-six cantons (some of them extremely small) have retained the ultimate power of deciding tax questions, and hence not only to limit the Federal level of the State to about 1/3 of total ...
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AI‐Driven Cancer Multi‐Omics: A Review From the Data Pipeline Perspective

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
The exponential growth of cancer multi‐omics data brings opportunities and challenges for precision oncology. This review systematically examines AI's role in addressing these challenges, covering generative models, integration architectures, Explainable AI for clinical trust, clinical applications, and key directions for clinical translation.
Shilong Liu, Shunxiang Li, Kun Qian
wiley   +1 more source

Own Revenue Growth of Rural Local Governments and Socio-Economic Challenges [PDF]

SocioEconomic Challenges
Addressing socioeconomic challenges related to fiscal decentralisation and rural development highlights the growing importance of strengthening the own-revenue capacity of rural local governments for improving financial sustainability and service ...
Bishnu Prasad Mohapatra
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