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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 +2 more
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How does fiscal decentralization affect aggregate, national, and subnational government size? [PDF]
Beyond conducting the usual regression analysis of the relationship between fiscal decentralization and aggregate government size (national and subnational combined), this paper makes the first attempt to examine how different fiscal decentralization ...
Jing Jin, Heng-fu Zou
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Decentralisation in South African local government : a critical evaluation [PDF]
, 2011 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 231-245).The South African local government model is considered to be decentralised in character, incorporating various constitutional, policy and statutory instruments to enable local ...
Siddle, Andrew McCalman
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Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 1999 In this comparison of Belo Horizonte?s and Salvador?s experiences within three arenas of local government, the article focuses on the viability of institutional arrangements based on decentralization and citizen participation.
Boschi Renato Raul
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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 +3 more
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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties [PDF]
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by ...
Hammond, George W., Tosun, Mehmet S.
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THE PROCESS OF DECENTRALIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON LOCAL SELF-GOVERNANCE [PDF]
Journal of Bio-Based MarketingThe process of decentralization in the Republic of North Macedonia is an important step towards strengthening local government and distributing political, economic, and social resources across the country.
Arben Ristemi
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THE ROLE OF FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION IN THE FORMATION OF FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS LOCALLY
Aktualʹnì Problemi Rozvitku Ekonomìki Regìonu, 2016 The purpose of the article was the coverage of the theoretical aspects of fiscal decentralization and clarification of the effects of Ukraine in the process of expanding the powers of local authorities regarding management decisions on the formation and ...
Galyna Voznyak
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Evolution of Physical Intelligence Across Scales
Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.By following the evolution of physical intelligence across scales, this article shows how intelligence arises from materials, structures, physical interactions, and collectives. It establishes physical intelligence as the evolutionary foundation upon which embodied intelligence is built.
Ke Liu +7 more
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DECENTRALIZATION AND GOVERNANCE [PDF]
The most important theoretical argument concerning decentralization is that it can improve governance by making government more accountable and responsive to the governed.
Jean-Paul Faguet
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