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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The third sector has emerged as an increasingly important actor in governance, social development, and public service delivery across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), yet scholarly understanding of its evolution, institutional capacity, and policy role remains fragmented and uneven.
Moosa Elayah +2 more
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AI‐Ready Bureaucracies? Assessing Capacity‐Building Approaches in European National AI Strategies
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The global expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategies is reshaping expectations about state capacity, yet the role of civil servants in this transition remains insufficiently theorized. This study examines how EU Member States address the civil service workforce in their national AI strategies, employing content and cluster analysis ...
Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar +2 more
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The Role of Subnational Governments in Sectoral Integration [PDF]
, 1988 subnational governments and sectoral ...
Fry, Earl H.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the interplay between climate change, violent conflict and forced migration in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), focusing on asylum flows to the European Union (EU). By integrating high‐resolution climate, conflict and socioeconomic data spanning 2000 to 2023, we develop a comprehensive empirical framework to ...
Shifa Mathbout +4 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There are increasing calls for a place‐based approach towards the Sustainable Development Goals that show their territorial diversity at subnational level. Based on 33 indicators, covering 13 SDGs and aggregated in three sub‐indexes (economy, social and environment), this paper develops a Sustainable Development Index for Rural and Urban Areas
Lucas Olmedo +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporate sustainability in the Global South unfolds under heterogeneous institutional conditions, where firms face simultaneous pressures from global ESG standards and local governance constraints. This study examines the relationship between ESG‐aligned environmental practices and corporate financial performance, considering the moderating ...
Paulo Sérgio Reinert +3 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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INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
International Studies JournalResearch Problem Intergovernmental relations in Nigeria have become increasingly characterized by excessive centralization of powers, weak institutional coordination and growing fiscal dependence of state and local governments on the federal government.
NURUDDEEN MUHAMMAD KOKO +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López +2 more
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Understanding Malaysian State Governments Fiscal Behavior: The Role of Intergovernmental Transfers [PDF]
As of late, several state governments in Malaysia have been identified as having serious difficulty in meeting their financial needs, to the extent of the government being qualified as on the verge of bankruptcy.
Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah +1 more
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