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Laws for fiscal responsibility for subnational discipline : international experience [PDF]
Fiscal responsibility laws are institutions with which multiple governments in the same economy -- national and subnational --can commit to help avoid irresponsible fiscal behavior that could have short-term advantages to one of them but that would be ...
Liu, Lili, Webb, Steven B.
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Subnational taxation in developing countries : a review of the literature [PDF]
This paper reviews the literature on tax assignment in decentralized countries. Ideally, own-source revenues should be sufficient to enable at least the richest subnational governments to finance from their own resources all locally-provided services ...
Bird, Richard M.
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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 +5 more
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Locating health diplomacy through African negotiations on performance‐based funding in global health [PDF]
, 2015 This article examines how national health actors in South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia perceive the participatory quality of negotiation processes associated with the performance‐based funding mechanisms of the Global Fund to ...
Brown, G. +7 more
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Panda diplomacy : The cutest part of China’s public diplomacy
, 2013 Summary In late 2011 and early 2012, the People’s Republic of China drew on its most unique diplomatic tool: the giant panda. Although this phenomenon is widely covered by the global media, the practice of panda diplomacy is only barely discussed in ...
Hartig, Falk
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Science Diplomacy; The Past and Future of International Diplomacy [PDF]
openScience diplomacy as a concept encompasses more than the words science and diplomacy signify on their own. During the tumultuous period between the Second World War, The Cold War and the dawn of the millennium, a vast array of scientific ...
GIBBS, ELLEN CATHLEEN
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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 +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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A new theory and practice of diplomacy new perspectives on diplomacy
, 2021 "Effective diplomacy remains fundamental to the conduct of international relations in the twenty-first century, as we seek to define and manage a challenging new world order peacefully.
Masser, Alastair +2 more
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Subnational Agency and the BRI: Guizhou’s Strategic Activism from the Periphery [PDF]
Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International JournalThis study examines how the provinces unmentioned in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in its initial stage respond to their marginalized position. Using Guizhou as a case study, this article shows that Guizhou did not passively accept this position ...
HongYing Li
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