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Subnational REDD+ Implementation: A Synthesis of Opportunities and Challenges

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REDD+ is a global mechanism that reduces greenhouse gas emissions by preventing deforestation and forest degradation, enhancing forest carbon stocks, and promoting sustainable forest management in developing countries.
Youjin Jung, Joonsoon Kim
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Subnational Government Bailouts in OECD Countries: Four Case Studies [PDF]

We present four case studies of bailouts of subnational governments in Australia, Germany, Italy and Sweden. The case studies show that bailouts can occur in a diverse set of institutions shaping the relations between central and subnational governments.
Helmut Seitz, Per Peterson, Matz Dahlberg, Massimo Bordignon, Jürgen Von Hagen, Bhajan S. Grewal   +5 more
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Subnational Competitiveness Grants Guidebook

, 2022
This report is a guidebook for practitioners to promote policy actions that strengthen competitiveness at the subnational level. It introduces Subnational Competitiveness Grants (SCGs) as an innovative approach in which well-tested tools for ...
Mahgoub, Ayah, Ayah Mahgoub, Hristova, Diana, Jade Salhab, Diana Hristova, Athar, Sohaib, Sohaib Athar, Salhab, Jade   +7 more
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Measuring the Vulnerability of Subnational Regions [PDF]

A small but growing literature has been concerned about the economic (and environmental) vulnerability on the level of countries. Less attention is paid to the economic vulnerability of different regions within countries. By focusing on the vulnerability
Rossouw, Stephanie, Naude, Wim, McGillivray, Mark   +2 more
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Subnational Bailouts in Germany [PDF]

This paper presents an investigation of subnational government bailouts in Germany. In the first part we briefly describe the system of fiscal federalism in Germany. The main part of the paper examines the bailout of two West German states.
Helmut Seitz
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How Should Subnational Government Borrowing Be Regulated?Some Cross-Country Empirical Evidence [PDF]

Countries have adopted various institutional responses to subnational government borrowing. Using a sample of 43 countries over the period 1982-2000, this paper provides a panel data analysis to determine the most effective borrowing constraints for ...
Alexander Plekhanov, Raju Singh
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Subnational Business Ready in the European Union 2024: Bulgaria

This year, the Subnational B-READY series cover 40 cities in six EU Member States—Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, and the Slovak Republic—covering 36 European regions.
World Bank
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Changes in the spatial distribution of the under-five mortality rate: Small-area analysis of 122 DHS surveys in 262 subregions of 35 countries in Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2019
The under-five mortality rate (U5MR) is a critical and widely available population health indicator. Both the MDGs and SDGs define targets for improvement in the U5MR, and the SDGs require spatial disaggregation of indicators.
Zehang Li, Yuan Hsiao, Jessica Godwin, Bryan D Martin, Jon Wakefield, Samuel J Clark, with support from the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation and its technical advisory group   +6 more
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Subnational government bailouts in Germany [PDF]

The paper presents an investigation of subnational government bailouts in Germany. In a first part we briefly describe the fiscal federalism system in Germany. The main part of the paper examines the bailout of two West German states.
Seitz, Helmut
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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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