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By Jane Jacobs, Martin Luther King Jr., John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Goodman, Eric W. Kierans

ISBN-10: 0887842178

ISBN-13: 9780887842177

The CBC Massey Lectures, an annual broadcasting fixture for greater than forty five years and Canada’s preeminent public lecture sequence, featured many of the most interesting talks by way of the various maximum minds of recent instances. during this notable assortment, significant thinkers provide passionate polemics at the significant problems with the 20 th century. listed below are King on race and prejudice; Galbraith on economics and poverty; Jacobs on Canadian towns and Quebec separatism; Goodman at the ethical ambiguity of the US; Brandt on overseas peace; Kierans on globalism and the countryside; and masses extra. Their phrases not just have significant historic importance but in addition stay highly suitable to the issues we are facing this day. finally, a range of those “lost” lectures is accessible to an international so hungry for, and but in such brief offer of, leading edge rules. The misplaced Massey Lectures contains an advent by way of veteran CBC manufacturer Bernie Lucht.

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Several countries introduced greater transparency in local government budgets. For instance, Vietnam’s 2002 State Budget Law requires that the final accounts for executed budgets at all levels of government be made public. 2 The Ho Chi Minh City experiment Vietnam began its decentralization reforms in 1999 with a pilot experiment in the province of Ho Chi Minh City to introduce block grant budgeting, along with more flexible personnel arrangements, in 10 districts and departments. Under the 1996 State Budget Law, spending units (subnational governments and front-line service providers) were required to receive budget approval from the Ministry of Finance at a line-item level, and they were then not allowed to reallocate spending across the nine blocks of controlled expenditure without formal approval.

Budgetary autonomy to local governments Decentralization in developing countries often tends to assign responsibilities to local governments to deliver services without giving them budgetary power and autonomy to carry out the responsibilities. 1 Implementing food subsidy reform in Tunisia Until the early 1990s Tunisia had an extensive system of universal food subsidies (with nearly 80 percent of the population benefiting). The subsidies were intended to stabilize prices and protect the poor and vulnerable from high prices.

Budgetary autonomy to local governments Decentralization in developing countries often tends to assign responsibilities to local governments to deliver services without giving them budgetary power and autonomy to carry out the responsibilities. 1 Implementing food subsidy reform in Tunisia Until the early 1990s Tunisia had an extensive system of universal food subsidies (with nearly 80 percent of the population benefiting). The subsidies were intended to stabilize prices and protect the poor and vulnerable from high prices.

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