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This article outlines the significance of the decentralisation reforms, which turned the dual federation of India into a multi-tier system, mandating systemic outcomes in democracy, accountability, local economic development, and social justice. It also examines how the grand design to strengthen the process of horizontal equity at the local level failed and probes into the

Michael Album is an employment benefits lawyer with Proskauer Rose in New York, representing companies on Executive compensation.

Rapid depreciation of the naira has outclassed the economic intelligence and electoral promises of the current administration as it did to its predecessors.

PDM should pay attention to the gender complexity of the poverty situation in Uganda

According to the report, fuel subsidy negatively affects the country’s fiscal position, increasing fiscal deficit.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the Nigerian government will likely depend on overdrafts from the Central Bank of Nigeria to fund

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HIGH POINT, N.C., Sept. 28, 2021 – In a new High Point University Poll, North Carolinians gave President Joe Biden a job approval rating of 38%. A little less than half (48%) of North Carolina residents said they disapprove of the job President Biden is doing. These same respondents gave Gov. Roy Cooper a job...

Police look on as a trans activist hangs a Pride flag on a statue in Krakow, Poland on August 8, 2020 (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty) Poland’s police commander-in-chief has been asked to explain why a new textbook for police officers lists LGBT+ people under “social pathologies”. The textbook, Social Pathologies – Selected Issues, was recently published by a police training centre in Legionowo. It describes the LGBT+ community as a form of “social pathology” alongside drug addiction...

GENEVA, Feb 16 2021 (IPS) - The United Nations Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters (UN Tax Committee) is an important and influential subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) that shapes standards and guidelines on international taxation. These are the rules through which Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) are taxed. Its role post-COVID has become even more important as countries struggle to raise revenue. Despite being under-resourced, it has prod...