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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Institutional arrangement"”.
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Institutional arrangement to support the functionality of ward committees in uMhlathuze Local Municipality and eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, Kwa-Zulu-Natal Province
The study focuses on the assessment of the institutional arrangement to support the functionality of ward committees in eThekwini metropolitan municipality and uMhlathuze local municipality. A focus on these two municipalities provides an opportunity to juxtapose the functionality of ward committee …
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Bankruptcy Procedures for Sovereign Debtors
… paper analyses the case for an international institutional arrangement to deal with sovereign debt problems considering underlying problems in sovereign credit markets. It finds that certain well-designed sovereign bankruptcy procedures may be one step toward a better international …
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Efficacy of the environmental laws in Zambia's mining sector.
… environmental legislation coupled with poor institutional arrangement of enforcement and monitoring. Implementing policies that are weak and not in line with the best international practices can have unintended consequences. One such example is lead contamination in Kabwe District and other …
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Efficacy of the environmental laws in Zambia's mining sector.
… environmental legislation coupled with poor institutional arrangement of enforcement and monitoring. Implementing policies that are weak and not in line with the best international practices can have unintended consequences. One such example is lead contamination in Kabwe District and other …
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A inserção do biodiesel na matriz energética nacional: aspectos socioeconômicos, ambientais e institucionais
… in its production, made viable by a monopolistic institutional arrangement, vertically integrated in the whole chain. It discusses the Brazilian oil market’s structuration process, showing that the share of the diesel in the final energy consumption makes biodiesel as an appropriate alternative to …
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The contract management responsibility system in China : an institutional interpretation
… (the CMRS) in particular. The latter is a new institutional arrangement to deal with the relation between the government and the state-owned enterprise which has always been at the centre of the enterprise reform. The focus of the research is on the process of institutionalization in order to …
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Towards improved partnerships in the water sector in the Middle East : A case study of Jordan
… been finding the right organizational and legal arrangements. In this inquiry, I selected four cases that vary in terms of the institutional arrangement which I hypothesize impacts the effectiveness of partnerships. These were (i) the Greater Amman water supply and wastewater services management …
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Institutional arrangements and land reallocation during transition : a regional analysis of small farms in Romania
… of land in associations occurred while this institutional arrangement was criticized in the literature and individual farming was portrayed as the panacea for these countries. The main research question that frames my dissertation is: Why do farmers still persist in joining associations …
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LA FORMAZIONE PROFESSIONALE IN ITALIA IN PROSPETTIVA STORICO - ISTITUZIONALE, 1945 - 1978
… the processes that culminated in the institutional arrangement of the Italian vocational education and training (VET) system during the critical period of path formation 1945-1978. Among other industrial economies Italy represents an historical example of long disequilibrium of the …
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Collective Action and Everyday Politics of Smallholder Farmers in Ugbawka: Examining Local Realities and Struggles of Smallholder Rice Farmers
… collective action is not best fitted into formal institutional arrangement but takes place within a complex and intricate process that involves interaction with diversity of institutions and actors. Equally, the interactions that occur amongst actors are mediated at the community level through …
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An institutional approach to the development of the textile and clothing clusters in China: the case of Zhejiang Province
… between the complicated interactive process of institutional change and the development of industrial clusters in China. It focuses on the distinctive institutional factors that have allowed the textile and clothing clusters in China to benefit from globalisation while those in other …
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Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area
… Conservation Area (BCCA), an innovative institutional arrangement involving community-ownership. This study is a participatory research project to provide systematic information on questions raised by project leaders concerning the future ownership and management of the BCCA. Its main …
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Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area
… Conservation Area (BCCA), an innovative institutional arrangement involving community-ownership. This study is a participatory research project to provide systematic information on questions raised by project leaders concerning the future ownership and management of the BCCA. Its main …
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Uncrossing the Rubicon: Transitions from Violent Civil Conflict to Peace
… for peace negotiations because factors that make institutional reform more likely also encourage peaceful resolution of conflict. The emergence of democratic institu- tions changes the state preferences by increasing the influence of the median citizen vis-`a-vis the authoritarian elite. Second, …
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The Evolution of the U.S. Trade Regime: From New Deal to Neoliberal, 1971 – 2001
… the interactivity of internal ideational and institutional processes with the evolution of the domestic and global political economies. In doing so, the thesis illuminates the radical, contingent, and contested nature of the regime’s underappreciated neoliberal restructuring and the deeper …
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HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE MAKING OF CORPORATE STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE
… imprinting dynamics and developing a regional, institutional imprinting perspective and (2) to a more nuanced understanding of institutional formation from a historical perspective and at the subnational level. In the third paper, I demonstrate that price regulation during a firm’s founding …
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Reforming the Chinese corporate governance system: a comparative law and economic analysis.
… systemic differences in ownership structures, institutional arrangement and legal rules betweenthe current Chinese corporate governance system and the systems in the UK and the US, or to determine how a corporate governance regime can best be designed to overcome the agency problems created by …
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Brownfields in China : how Cities recycle industrial land
… projects even within the same city? and (4) What institutional arrangement is favorable to pollution remediation? My argument is that, rather than solely relying on reform from the top, local governments have the ability to ensure a sustainable and healthy industrial land redevelopment. Through …
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Analysis of institutional arrangements and common pool resources governance: the case of Lake Tana sub-basin, Ethiopia
… This research employed the modified form of Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. The framework integrates the concept of Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) and Interactive Governance (IG) perspectives where social actors, institutions, the politico-economic context, discourses …
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Governing regional telecommunication networks in a developing region: the SADC case
… building as a tool in foreign affairs in the institutional arrangements within SADC countries and ICT policy outcomes in the region. This reveals the wider political, economic and more specific policy and regulatory constraints hampering the development of the information society from a …
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