Essays about: "decentralization and infrastructure development"

Found 5 essays containing the words decentralization and infrastructure development.

1. 1. The Coordination Mechanisms of Self-Managing Organizations : An Explorative Case-Study of Three Pioneers

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Företagsekonomi

   Author : Beatrice Elman; [2018]
   Keywords : Self-Managing Organizations; post-bureaucratic organizations; boss less firms; radical decentralization; coordination mechanisms; coordination in post-bureaucratic organizations; coordination mechanisms in team-based organizations; horizontal and vertical organizations;

   Abstract : After many years of limited activity in the field of coordination research, new organizing forms with the aim to abandon managerial hierarchies have caused a renaissance in the research of new solutions to this universal organizing problem. An emerging stream of research about Self-Managing Organizations (SMOs) which eliminates formal hierarchies and managers completely, have left researchers wondering about SMOs new coordination solution as antecedent organizing forms have their coordination solution strongly dependent on managers. READ MORE

3. 2. Bridging the Gaps : A Field Study on the Impact of Societal Gaps on Livelihoods in Lichinga Municipality, Mozambique

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Juliana Bennett; Ulrike Luise Bens; [2016]
   Keywords : Mozambique; Lichinga Municipality; Sustainable Rural Livelihoods; Households; Gaps;

   Abstract : This study was performed in the spring of 2016 in the Lichinga municipality in northern Mozambique, as a part of the Master Programme in Peace and Development Work at Linnaeus University in Växjo, Sweden. The agricultural dynamics within Mozambique point to the need for this sector to be the cornerstone of development, since 80% of the population is employed in the agricultural sector yet only making up a quarter of the country’s GDP. READ MORE

4. 3. Income Differences between Minorities and Han-Chinese: Discrimination or structural problems?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Stefanie Oedekoven; [2015]
   Keywords : geography; Southern China; World Bank; endowments; CHIP 2007; discrimination; income inequality; minorities; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : When looking at the Chinese society, it becomes visible that it is made up of over 56 ethnicities, of which 55 form minority groups. Data shows that members of these ethnic minorities have a lower income than individuals belonging to the majority and this gap doesn’t seem to be closing. READ MORE

5. 4. Stakeholders Participation: Myth or Reality? : A Case study of Community Water Supply Management in Bambui-Tubah Village in Cameroon

   University essay from Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Claude Chia Kiteh; [2011]
   Keywords : Sustainable development; Participation; community; water-management; Sustainability;

   Abstract : The aim of this study was to make an assessment on rural water supply management with particular focus in sub-Saharan African countries because of the water crisis that has plagued them for decades now. Most sub-Sahara African countries lack potable water supply as a result of mismanagement of resource and / or inadequate infrastructure provided by their governments. READ MORE

6. 5. Sustainable water management through user participation : a field study in rural Maharashtra, India

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Patrik Cras; [2008]
   Keywords : participation; water management; development economics; common pool resource; rural India;

   Abstract : This research project deals with the topic of drinking water provision in rural Maharashtra, where availability of suitable drinking water is a major difficulty for the rural population. The focus is on hand pumps. These resource systems have been provided as tax financed public goods by the central government. READ MORE