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The municipal electricity debt crisis in South Africa
International Review of Social Sciences ResearchThis paper aims to raise awareness of the municipal electricity debt crisis in South Africa and provide an analytical understanding of the administrative, financial, and governance factors driving it.
Sifiso Mofokeng +4 more
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah +3 more
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Cogent Economics & FinanceThis paper examines why comparable levels of donor aid produce different outcomes in economic governance and public financial management across post-conflict African states.
Mohamed Yusuf Adan, Said Abubakar Ahmed
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Financial management for public administrations: developments and tools
, 2013 For many years there has been a lack of scholarly interest in how financial management works in public administrations. Possible explanations for this may be found in the rules and working practices that have marked the dynamics of finance in public ...
MARSILIO, MARTA +3 more
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Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
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Maldives: Public Financial Management: Performance Report
IMF Staff Country Reports, 2010 This paper focuses on the Public Financial Management—Performance Report for the Maldives. In line with the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) methodology, the assessment focuses on the fiscal performance during 2005–08, and the institutions and procedures that were in place during this period.
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Rational or Institutional Intent? Knowledge Management adoption in Saudi public organizations
, 2016 A mixed-methods analysis examined the motivations of the Saudi public organizations to adopt knowledge management as a modern management philosophy by using rational and institutional perspectives.
Alamri, Mashhoor, Abumaghayed, Yahya
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The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan +8 more
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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, 2005 “Beyond Government Performance: Is Planning and Management Enough?” 17th Annual Conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management a section of the American Society for Public Administration Co-Sponsors Section on International and ...
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