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Assessing the Energy Crisis in South Africa: The Socio-Economic Implication and Challenges Ahead [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesThis paper examined the socio-economic implications caused by the current energy crisis South Africa is facing. Although the crisis is not at its worst stage when compared to other countries in Africa, there are still challenges ahead if the crisis at ...
Kazeem Oyedele Lamidi +1 more
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The Municipalities and INSPIRE – Any Connection?
Geoforum Perspektiv, 2014 On the surface, the municipalities are neither data owners nor data systems managers in connection with Denmark's reporting of data to INSPIRE. However, if you dig a little deeper in the actual data reports, you will see that the municipalities are ...
Inge Flensted
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Local self-government or local co-governance?
Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, 2010 The article discusses “local self-government”, a core concept in a charter of the Council of Europe, and departs from a debate in the Norwegian Parliament about constitutional protection of local self-government. Newly, such a change was voted down, and this serves as an opportunity to question the idea about local self-government in a time when there ...
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Success, challenges and prospects of decentralization in Africa: a systematic review
Cogent Social SciencesDecentralization remains a global development approach. African countries have been using decentralization by devolution to realize their development vision. This study assesses the success, challenges, and prospects of decentralization in Africa.
Rogers Rugeiyamu, Adam Msendo
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Local Governance in Bangladesh: Policy and Strategy Framework
Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2016 The author argued that the absence of a local governance policy is a priority governance problem in Bangladesh, which affects effective implementation of decentralisation policies and programmes sporadically undertaken from time to time.
Tofail Ahmed
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Evaluating the origin and spread of spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) in Japan
Population Ecology, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 162-179, April 2025.The invasive spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) is native to China and is a serious economic pest in the Republic of Korea and the United States, though it is not considered a pest in Japan. We established a distribution map of L. delicatula in Japan through a comprehensive review of published literature and citizen science reports and analyzed ...
Matthew T. Kamiyama +5 more
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Review of the Commonwealth Local Government Good Practice Scheme
Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2012 The overarching objective of the Commonwealth Local Government Good Practice Scheme (GPS) was to contribute towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals at the local level; there were four expected outputs: 1.
Rachael Duchnowski
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Nigerian Federalism: The Quest for Restructuring
Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan, 2023 The quest for restructuring Nigeria’s federal system has been a frequent tune from most of her citizens. This challenge has created a wide gap in the federation which threatens the sovereignty of the nation. These agitations for secession/disintegration,
AYOTUNDE DAVID ODEWALE +2 more
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Making tau amyloid models in vitro: a crucial and underestimated challenge
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This review highlights the challenges of producing in vitro amyloid assemblies of the tau protein. We review how accurately the existing protocols mimic tau deposits found in the brain of patients affected with tauopathies. We discuss the important properties that should be considered when forming amyloids and the benchmarks that should be used to ...
Julien Broc, Clara Piersson, Yann Fichou
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A Decade of improvement for local government
Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2010 The theme of this year’s Commonwealth Local Government Conference was Improving local government: the Commonwealth vision. This theme is fundamental to all of us working in and with local government, but particularly so in the current economic climate ...
Susan Rhodes
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