national governments
Sustainability reporting matters : what are national governments doing about it?
... frameworks relies to a great extent on the willingness and ability of national governments to report in this way. There are also a number of international non-governmental bodies, pressure groups and think ...
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The Political Economy of Sovereign Rating Criteria : What Rating Agencies Demand from National Governments
... As discussed in chapter 2, rating agencies have an impact on government bond prices and the domestic economy. Therefore, it matters what the agencies demand from national governments. As Amartya Sen in the ...
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Budgetary Accounting in National Governments: Anglo versus American Accounting
... other national governments, including the UK’s) can provide the authorisation (first, by annual authorisation in an annual budget, and second by an authorisation once and for all) has been used by Schick ...
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“The Budgetary System of National and Sub-national Governments in India”
... The budgetary system, more or less, retained these features in spite of the reforms introduced by Lord Mayo in 1870, Lord Lytton in 1877, Lord Rippon's Quinquennial Settlements of 1882 and Lord Curzon's Reforms, 1904. ...
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The dynamics of cross border micro regionalisation among Guangdong, Taiwan and Japan : sub national governments, multinational corporations and the emergence of multi level governance
... Why, then, does the rise of cross-border economic activities require new forms of governance? One of the reasons is that the state and sub-national levels have faced an increasing burden of new regulations. For ...
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The leading role of national governments : determining the government positions of the new Eurozone Member States on the national and European level
... the national preferences of the participating ...their national preference intensity, while on the other hand negotiation outcomes are seen as always efficient and generally pareto-optimal (Moravcsik, ...
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Decentralization, Fiscal Discipline in Sub-National Governments and the Bailout Problem: The Case of Argentina
... the national government also wanted (through this nationalization) to transform the provincial pension systems, making them compatible with the already-reformed national ...the National Treasury to ...
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Policy Instruments for Climate Change: How Can National Governments Address a Global Problem?
... This "broad, then deep" strategy is similar to the approach frequently taken to address other kinds of international problems. For example, if one were to seek the eventual peaceful coexistence of Israelis and ...
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Are hard budget constraints for sub national governments always efficient?
... Fiscal decentralization, the allocation of tax and spending powers to lower levels of govern- ment, is now an established policy objective, in many developed and developing countries. Moreover, it is actively promoted as ...
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Essays analysing historical cases of economic intervention by national governments
... This analysis has not said anything directly about ehe relative virtues of these economic policy tools in aiding the rate of economic growth of the Japanese economy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The most ...
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Governments and a war past: the politics of reconciliation
... The case of Rwanda is mostly presented as a role model of successful rapid economic restoration. The data of the World Bank show the differences between the two cases. Sierra Leone has 66.4 % of its population living in ...
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Why Do Governments Use Militias?
... In the following, we present out theoretical argument drawing on the literature in economics on outsourcing and transaction costs. Despite transaction costs incurred by relying on outside organizations, there are also ...
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Productivity Changes in the Chinese Provincial Governments
... Chinese governments in the next period; that is, to eradicate the traditional practice of setting functional agencies corresponding to those of upper-level government, so as to adapt the agency structures and ...
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The Dynamics of the Policy Agenda of Dutch Governments
... When we look into the specifics of the Rutte – II government, we notice that the trend of deviating more and more from the agreement as started in the late 90’s is not continued. Even more, it appears that Rutte – II is ...
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Budget pressures on Australian governments 2014
... partnerships may improve credit ratings, but ultimately future recurrent budgets must still pay for the cost of past infrastructure. Continued trends in health and Age Pension costs are likely to drag future budgets ...
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THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ACT. Statutory Instrument The Local Governments (Kampala City Council) (Solid Waste Management) Ordinance.
... The responsible person at any dwelling unit, commercial, industrial or institutional establishment or ground within the corporate limits of the city where solid waste accumulates shall e[r] ...
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Local Governments and Primary Education in Uganda
... below national averages, this region’s limited access to government services – due to its remoteness, a history of war, and a continuing lack of community voice – makes for an interesting case (AFARD 2011: ...
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Australian voter, parties and the federal system of government : a study of party preference, perceptions of political parties and the salience of national and state governments in Denison, Tasmania
... THE AUSTRALIAN VOTER, PARTIES AND THE FEDERAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT: A study of party preference, perceptions of political parties and the salience of national and state governments in De[r] ...
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THE INVOLVEMENT OF GOVERNMENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE
... Firstly, the absence of pooling is the first difference of agricultural insurance that has little potential gain from the pooling of similar risks. This is because in case of agricultural insurance, when risks occurs in ...
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Trade unions' views on working with donor governments in the development sector: a review of 18 donor governments' support mechanisms
... Unavoidably, dependency on governmental funding has implications for TUs. It is especially sensitive because of the political nature of much TU development work. Interviewees provided examples of how their work is ...
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