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THE SYSTEM OF COMPETENCES’ DISTRIBUTION IN MUNICIPAL FORMATION AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN MODERN CONDITIONS [PDF]

open access: yesЭкономика региона, 2006
The essence and system of competences’ distribution in municipal formation is considered in the article. The results of administrative reform and reform of local self-management in the sphere of differentiation of powers between federal bodies, state ...
N.A. Potekhin , L.P. Ustinova
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The elimination of local public animal protection bodies: the case of the Special Secretary of Animal Rights (SEDA) of the Municipality of Porto Alegre, Brasil

open access: yesDerecho Animal, 2017
This essay deals with the elimination of the Special Secretary for Animal Rights (SEDA) of Porto Alegre, which occurred in January 2017 through the Administrative Reform Law of this municipality.
Luciano Rocha Santana
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Local responses to state-led municipal reform in the Finnish-Swedish border region: conflicting development discourses, culture and institutions

open access: yesFennia: International Journal of Geography, 2018
This paper scrutinises the intersections and collisions of different development discourses in the Kemi-Tornio sub-region which lies alongside the Finnish-Swedish border within the political context of municipal reform initiated by the Finnish government
Fredriika Jakola
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Turnout and Territorial Reform: Data from Sub municipal governments in Portugal

open access: yesData in Brief, 2020
This database is related to the voter turnout in five election cycles (2001, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017). The data was used in the original in the article “The effects of amalgamations on voter turnout: Evidence from sub-municipal governments in Portugal”
Miguel Rodrigues, António Tavares
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Can there be growth with equity : an initial assessment of land reform in South Africa [PDF]

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The authors use evidence from a survey of about 1200 beneficiaries of South African land reform to assess the performance of the initial phase of the land reform program.
Deininger, Klaus, May, Julian
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Sociological investigation results of Ukraine municipal governance representatives about the implementation of the regional pathoanatomical center project promotion

open access: yesJournal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018
The aim is to evaluate the opinion among the municipal administration representatives (MAR) of Ukraine, about the prospects of the regional pathoanatomical center (RPC) project. Materials and methods. According to a specially designed questionnaire, 106
L. G. Rosha
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Utility privatization and the needs of the poor in Latin America - Have we learned enough to get it right? [PDF]

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Efforts to reform utilities can affect poor households in varied, often complex, ways, but it is by no means certain that such reform will hurt vulnerable households.
Estache, Antonio   +2 more
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Ownership and performance of Lithuanian enterprises [PDF]

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The author presents some evidence of improved corporate performance in Lithuania for the period 1995-97. His question: Were these improvements in any way caused by privatization and changes in the environment in which enterprises operate?
Grigorian, David A.
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Municipal preferences for state imposed amalgamations: An empirical study based on the 1952 municipal reform in Sweden [PDF]

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This paper concerns municipal preferences for state imposed municipal amalgamations. The main purpose of the paper is to study what factors that can explain municipal acceptance or objection of a state imposed amalgamation decision.
Hanes, Niklas   +2 more
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Making negotiated land reform work : initial experience from Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa [PDF]

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The author describes a new type of negotiated land reform that relies on voluntary land transfers negotiated between buyers and sellers, with the government's role restricted to establishing the necessary framework for negotiation and making a land ...
Deininger, Klaus
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