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Strengthening local government budgeting and accountability [PDF]
In many developing and middle-income countries, decentralization reforms are promoting changes in governance structures that are reshaping the relationship between local governments and citizens.
Schaeffer, Michael, Yilmaz, Serdar
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy +2 more
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Ibero-American Research on Local Development. An Analysis of Its Evolution and New Trends [PDF]
, 2019 Local development is a subject that arouses significant interest in the international scientific community in general, and in the Ibero-American one, in particular.
Pablo Valenciano, Jaime de +3 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Design of the participatory budget: how to turn citizens into process protagonists [PDF]
, 2022 Giorgia Mattei +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disability support has shifted towards models of personalised care, which critics argue may contribute to increased inequalities. There is limited systematic evidence investigating inequalities in support among children with disabilities. To investigate inequalities in support, a survey of parents of children with disabilities aged 2–17 was ...
Martin O'Flaherty +2 more
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Fiscal determinants of empowerment [PDF]
Empowerment of local governments and citizens is a primary object of decentralization. Using the analytic lens of empowerment, the author explores the nature of decentralized governance and how this type of structure is likely to be more or less ...
Raich, Uri
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Participatory Budgeting: Core Principles and Key Impacts [PDF]
, 2012 This essay is a reflection piece. I identify key principles at the core of how PB functions and to discuss the scope of change we might expect to see generated by these institutions.
Wampler, Brian
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Political effects on the discontinuation of participatory budgeting in municipalities [PDF]
, 2022 Ricardo Rocha de Azevedo +3 more
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