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"Subnational Borrowing in Japan : from 'Implicit Guarantee' to Market Discipline and Fiscal Rule" [PDF]

In many countries, local borrowing is an important source for long-term development projects such as roads, bridges, and waterworks. Local borrowing for such projects is justified on the ground that benefit of these projects often last decades and the ...
Nobuki Mochida
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The Impact of Domestic Public Health Spending on Health Outcomes in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Evidence From Disability‐Adjusted Life Years

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to experience a high and uneven disease burden, mainly from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. As external funding declines, the strategic allocation of domestic public health spending (DPHS) becomes crucial.
Wa Ntita Serge Kabongo, Josue Mbonigaba
wiley   +1 more source

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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Institutional Diversity in Banking and Economic Complexity

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we test whether institutional diversity in banking systems is beneficial to economic complexity, using data for Italian provinces in the period 1998–2017. We compute different indexes that consider diversity from an ownership, institutional, business model and competition point of view and find that higher diversity has a ...
Beniamino Pisicoli
wiley   +1 more source

Public participation in rural areas supported by regional governments in the context of sustainable rural development: The case of Poland

International Journal of Management and Economics
The processes involved in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) localization, sustainable rural development (SRD), and the use of public participation to support the achievement of the SDGs have gained importance in recent years.
Olejniczak Jarosław, Bednarska-Olejniczak Dorota   +1 more
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Subnational mobilization and political countermovement in EU trade policy in Belgium, Germany and Spain

Paix et Sécurité Internationales
While subnational governments in federal systems are often treated as potentially autonomous policy jurisdictions, central governments have traditionally held exclusive authority over trade policy.
Maria Helena Guimarães, Michelle Egan
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Global Sustainable Challenges, Local Solutions: Paradiplomacy and Waste Management in Cirebon [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
This article analyzes the role of paradiplomacy in addressing global sustainable challenges such as waste management at the local level, with a focus on the Cirebon case.
Affandi Roseno Aji, Utami Putri
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Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size in Latin America [PDF]

This paper explores the link between fiscal decentralization and government size in Latin America. While most related work attempts to test Brennan and Buchanan's "Liviathan" hypothesis, here the emphasis is placed on a different channel: the potential ...
Ernesto Stein
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
wiley   +1 more source

The Structure and Financial Dimensions of Public Administration in EU Countries

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2015
Various traditional trends and roles of pub-lic administration can be traced across the Eu-ropean Union member states. These countries, however, are obliged to abide by common ad-ministrative and legal principles of the European administrative area. This
Martina HALÁSKOVÁ, Renáta HALÁSKOVÁ
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