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Macro Federalism and Local Finance / Shah, Anwar
The book is divided into two parts. The first part macro federalism provides a fresh look at emerging constitutional challenges arising from globalization and the information revolution, as well as the dynamic-efficiency and growth implications of existing federal constitutions. Several aspects of these systems are examined: (a) institutional desig [...]
World Bank; 2008 - 338p ; Ref.
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Mobilizing Urban Infrastructure Finance Within a Responsible Fiscal Framework. South African Case / van Ryneveld, Philip
Since South Africa held its first democratic elections in 1994, it has given significant attention to building an effective system of decentralization including provincial and local government. While provincial governments are responsible mainly for the implementation of social services such as health and education, the provision of much of the urb [...]
The Work Bank; 2006 - 17p
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Natural Resource Governance and Domestic Revenue Mobilization for Structural Transformation / Economic Commission for Africa
Africa is hugely endowed with diverse natural resources, including land and water for agriculture, forests for wood and non-wood forest products, and minerals, oil and gas for mining. For decades the direct exploitation and use of these natural resources have dominated the continent’s economies and the livelihoods of most of its population and, t [...]
ECA; 2018 - 130p.
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Making local governance work for the poor. Local government in Nigeria: a review of the landscape and challenges / The Orderly Society Trust
The Orderly Society; 2010 - 142p.
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Domestic resource mobilization in Pakistan: Selected issues / Jetha, Nizar
The emphasis of this paper, which is confined to federal taxes, is on tax reform with a view to raising additional revenues and encouraging household and business savings in Pakistan. Taxation is related to the three main components of saving - public, personal, and business savings, and policies to stimulate national saving are more likely to succ [...]
World Bank; 1984 - 133p.
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Privatizing Africa's Infrastructure : Promise and challenge / Kerf, Michel
This paper examines the promise and challenge of infrastructure privatization in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular emphasis on power, telecommunications, water, rail, ports and airports. The paper places primary emphasis on mobilizing private investment in infrastructure. To realize the potential of infrastructure privatization in sub-Saharan Afr [...]
World Bank; - 99p., Bibliogr.
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Mobilizing for Democracy: Citizen Action and the Politics of Public Participation / Coelho, Vera Schatten
This book is about how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. A collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa illustrate how alternative forms of political mobilization -- such as protests, social participation, activism, litigation and lobbying -- e [...]
Zed Books; 2010 - 288 pages
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Decentralization and Local Democracy in the World First Global Report /
The World Bank; 2009 - 345p. ; Bib
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Ethiopia: The Challenge of Democracy from Below /
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala; 2002 - 215p; Ref.
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The distributive effects of local government finances in Colombia: A review of the evidence / Linn, Johannes F.
Local government in Colombia plays an important role in the provision and financing of public services, particularly in the urban areas. The potential scope for redistribution of income through local government activities should therefore not be neglected, as it generally has been in the literature. This paper brings together scattered evidence ava [...]
World Bank; 1976 - 46p.
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Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam / Bird, Richard M.
A successful poverty alleviation strategy has four distinct elements: 1) identifying who the poor are, where they are located, and what they do; 2) analyzing why they are poor; 3) developing policies to improve their standards of living; and 4) supplementing income-improving policies with direct "safety net" policies to increase the poor's short-te [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 48p.
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Beating the ODDS Sustaining Inclusion in Mozambique's Growing Economy / Fox, Louise
This assessment, reflecting poverty's many dimensions in Mozambique, combines multiple disciplines and diagnostic tools to explore poverty. It draws on a combination of approaches and tools from three separate analytical diagnostics developed by the World Bank: poverty assessment, country gender assessment, and country social analysis. It uses mone [...]
World Bank; 2008 - 285p. ; Ref.
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International capital mobility and the costs of US Import restraints / de Melo, Jaime
In a series of recent papers, Neary and others have established the importance of trade in factor services, especially capital, in determining the welfare effects of import restrictions by tariffs, QRs, and VERs. In the absence of induced terms-of-trade changes and rental rate effects, Neary demonstrates that international capital mobility raises t [...]
World Bank; 1990 - 24p.
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Regional Economic Outlook: Domestic Revenue Mobilization and Private Investment / IMF
Sub-Saharan Africa is set to enjoy a modest growth uptick, and decisive policies are needed to both reduce vulnerabilities and raise medium-term growth prospects. Average growth in the region is projected to rise from 2.8 percent in 2017 to 3.4 percent in 2018, with growth accelerating in about two-thirds of the countries in the region aided by str [...]
IMF; 2018 - 126 p.
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Mobilizing domestic resources for economic development in Nigeria: the role of the capital market / Ogwumike, Fidelis O.
This study focuses on the role of the capital market in mobilizing domestic resources for economic development in Nigeria, with emphasis on the role of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). The objectives of the study are to identify the major problems confronting the stock market and to determine the impact of government policies on the operations of [...]
AERC; 1997 - 54p.
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Second Conference on Development Objectives and Strategy University of Liberia 19 - 23 april, 1971: the mobilization of local resources / Stewart, Frank J.
Department of Planning and Economic Affairs; 1971 - 14 p.
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Fiscal Decentralization in DEveloping and Transition Economies : Progress, Problems, and the Promise / Shah, Anwar
The author discusses the revolution in public sector thinking that is transforming the public sectors of developing and transition countries. Countries are reconsidering their fiscal systems and searching for the right balance between central government control and decentralized governance. Political decentralization has advanced in most countries.. [...]
The World Bank; 2004 - 47p; Ref.
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Can there be growth with equity? An initial assessment of land reform in South Africa / Deininger, Klaus
The authors use evidence from a survey of about 1200 beneficiaries of South African land reform to assess the performance of the initial phase of the land reform program. They find that the program has not lived up to the quantitative goals set, but did successfully target the poor. It has led to a significant number of economically successful proj [...]
World Bank; 2000 - 26p., Ref.
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Financial openness, democracy and redistribution policy / Dailami, Monsoor
The debate about the relationship between democratic forms of government and the free movement of capital across borders dates to the 18th century. It has regained prominence as capital on a massive scale has become increasingly mobile and as free economies experience continuous pressure from rapidly changing technology, market integration, changin [...]
World Bank; 2000 - 31p., ref.
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