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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Soil is crucial for human survival but is threatened by erosion and contamination. Farmers play a pivotal role in soil conservation, thus, understanding what influences their decisions is crucial. The IN‐GEST SOIL project aimed to mitigate soil erosion and improve soil and vine quality in Piedmont vineyards, NW Italy.
Federica Caffaro +6 more
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Local Public Good Provision, Municipal Consolidation, and National Transfers [PDF]
We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a region comprising two districts, a city and a village. When districts remain autonomous and local public goods have positive spillover effects on the neighboring district, there is ...
Robert Dur, Klaas Staal
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores how we might integrate local traditional values into a systems approach for analyzing and maximizing localization in the context of foreign aid. The paper situates localization and its operationalization in the older and broader literature on the political economy of foreign aid.
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
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Jurnal Wacana Kinerja, 2018 The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of intergovernmental transfers fund and the region's autonomy in financing public welfare at local government (municipal and districts) in West Java.
Nugraha Nugraha, Tia Amelia
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Improvement of methodological approaches to the budget regulation at the state and local levels [PDF]
Marketing i Menedžment Innovacij, 2011 The article is dedicated to the economic essence of the budget regulation and to its main forms. The authors of the article analyzed the existing forms and proposed methodological approach to the management of intergovernmental transfers based on the ...
O.V. Prokopenko, V.Yu. Shkola
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Understanding Malaysian State Governments Fiscal Behavior: The Role of Intergovernmental Transfers
As of late, several state governments in Malaysia have been identified as having serious difficulty in meeting their financial needs, to the extent of the government being qualified as on the verge of bankruptcy.
Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah +1 more
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Reflections on Comparative Teaching in Public Administration
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article integrates our scholarly experience of teaching comparative public administration. In doing so, we offer a unique perspective as the co‐authors carry several diverse attributes, among them their countries of origin, current country in which they are teaching, and their academic experience.
Kim Moloney +6 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract In Central Africa, human activities are severely impacting terrestrial and aquatic wildlife, threatening the food security of millions of people. Accordingly, sustainable use of wildlife is crucial for the nutrition and livelihoods of many rural communities in the region.
Zolo Admettons +9 more
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Evaluating fiscal equalization in Indonesia [PDF]
This paper presents a methodology to evaluate fiscal decentralization focusing on the potential mis-targeting of intergovernmental fiscal equalization transfers.
Suharnoko Sjahrir, Bambang +3 more
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Systemic bio‐inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Biodiversity is declining globally while inequity is growing, and poverty rates are not improving. Global sustainable development and conservation initiatives aim to address biodiversity loss and poverty simultaneously. Through text analysis of global biodiversity policies, we identified a consistent narrative that countries with high ...
Conor Waldock +4 more
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