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Intergovernmental Transfers: The Funding Rule and Mechanisms

The paper categorizes different types of intergovernmental transfers, discusses the funding rule of grants, and outlines some principles for setting up transfer allocation mechanisms that respect hard budget constraints at the macroeconomic level.
Paul Bernd Spahn
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Beyond Resilience: Measuring the Livelihood Vulnerability of Commercial Livestock Farmers to Drought in South Africa

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change continues to increase the frequency and intensity of events, threatening agricultural production, farmers' livelihoods and the achievement of SDGs 1 and 2 (No Poverty and Zero Hunger). This study examined the effect of agricultural drought on the livelihood vulnerability of commercial livestock farmers in the Northern Cape ...
Hanipher Mili, Yonas T. Bahta, Frikkie Mare, H. N. van Niekerk, Stephen Nyaki   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A framework for evaluating alternate institutional arrangements for fiscal equalization transfers [PDF]

Fiscal equalization programs are fairly common features of intergovernmental fiscal relations in industrial countries. Some developing countries have also recently introduced these programs and still others are contemplating such programs.
Shah, Anwar
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A Person‐Environment Fit Framework for Measuring Multi‐Risk Community Resilience: 24 Indicators with Metrics and Vulnerability Thresholds

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study addresses a persistent challenge in community resilience research and practice: how to assess and build resilience when communities face multiple, interacting, and potentially unforeseen risks. It develops a relational framework for multi‐risk resilience based on Person–Environment (P–E) Fit Theory.
Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat
wiley   +1 more source

Healthcare Leadership in Resource-Limited Settings: Reimagining Public Hospital Governance in Somalia. [PDF]

J Healthc Leadersh
Ali AS, Ahmed MM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Pathways to Sustainable Development in G7 Economies: The Role of Fiscal Decentralization, Renewable Energy Finance, and Technological Progress in Carbon Mitigation

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Existing empirical insights into fiscal architecture and G7 emissions are confined to decentralized‐OECD studies that neither test whether centralization conditions the climate effectiveness of human capital or renewable energy finance, nor account for effects varying across the emissions distribution.
Taimoor Hassan, Piotr Krajewski, Muhammad Arif Khan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The local government bond channel of China's monetary policy. [PDF]

PLoS One
Bai J, Xia H, Zhang L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Measuring Fiscal Decentralization in the Philippines [PDF]

This paper focuses on the fiscal decentralization in the Philippines after the 1991 Local Government Code. It first examines the intergovernmental fiscal relationship between central and local governments by using fiscal decentralization indicators, and ...
Suzuki, Yurika, Uchimura, Hiroko
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The Global Forestation Network: Orchestrating the Financing and Development of Tree Planting Programs

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces the ‘global forestation network’ (GFN)—an arrangement of actors that shape afforestation, reforestation, and forest restoration activities worldwide. These activities typically involve planting trees, and are motivated by supporting biodiversity, local communities, and climate change mitigation. At the GFN's core sit the ‘
Benjamin S. Thompson
wiley   +1 more source

Brexit and the Constitutional Absence of England: Revisiting the English Question. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
Nyatanga D.
europepmc   +1 more source