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Showing 1 to 20 of 429 for “"decentralization"”.
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The aesthetics of decentralization
… I explore the ways in which the "aesthetics of decentralization" articulates a circuit of desire connecting technical systems, cultural metaphors and social forms. A key countercultural motif in the history of the World Wide Web, decentralization imagines that political objectives of openness, …
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An analysis of computer decentralization
Thesis. 1977. B.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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China--decentralization and regional cooperation
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.
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Fiscal federalism and decentralization in Mongolia
… decades. There is a series of arguments that decentralization of governments enhances growth by improving allocation efficiency. However, the empirical studies have shown mixed results for industrialized and developing countries and some of them have demonstrated that there might be a …
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Three Essays on FDI and Decentralization
… of employment gain among regions are large. Decentralization has positive effects on FDI when fiscal authority and political power is appropriately divided between central government and sub-national governments. Decentralization has significantly positive effect on FDI only in a democratic …
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Fiscal decentralization and urban public transport
… Yet, there is no literature on the effects of decentralization of tax raising on public transport provision although an increasing number of subnational governments reports a mismatch between transferred resources and devolved responsibilities and the public finance literature indicates that …
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Decentralization of Forest Management in Southwest China
China’s decentralization has been recognized internationally, as it has arguably made significant contributions to rapid economic growth and social development in the past three decades. However, the impact of decentralization on resource management is more ambiguous and less studied. Given the …
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Decentralization and Hospital Governance in Rural Paraguay
… in rural Paraguay. The democratization and decentralization efforts of the Paraguayan federal government in the last 20 years resulted in creation of the LHCs, but little research has been conducted on how these entities are now working in comparison to the expectations envisioned for them. …
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Role of traditional leaders in Namibia's decentralization policy
… at the role of traditional leaders in the new decentralization dispensation in Namibia. The paper contends from the onset that the decentralization policy does not have ample provisions intended to harmonize traditional leadership with modern forms of government. What prevails are inconclusive …
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Why do States Decentralize? The Politics of Decentralization.
… dissertation seeks to explain the variations in decentralization we observe among states. Why, for example, are some states more decentralized than others? More importantly, why do central leaders in some states devolve power to local politicians, who may defect to pose challenges to the leader? …
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Decentralization, Structural Change and Regional Disparities in Colombia
… in educational infrastructure. While decentralization is associated with higher infrastructure growth rates, the reduction in inequality seems to be clearer under centralization. Since a decentralized system and social unrest conditions still persist in Colombia, the adoption of a …
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Appropriating decentralization: how urban poverty project triggers advocacy
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Making decentralization work : building local institutions in Cambodia
This dissertation examines the dynamics of decentralization in a highly centralized, institutionally constrained, and externally resource-dependent environment. It uses a case study of Seila, a decentralization program in Cambodia, based on extensive fieldwork from 1996 to 1999. Initiated in 1996 …
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The strategy of concentrated decentralization for regional growth.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1970. Ph.D.
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Decentralization and health service delivery : Uganda case study
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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