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Decentralization and Citizens’ Participation in Local Governance: Does Trust and Transparency Matter? – An Empirical Study 权力下放和公民参与地方治理：信任和透明度重要吗实证研究

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FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-01-17 DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2021.1872698

V. Arkorful, B. Lugu, Anastasia Hammond, Ibrahim Basiru

引用次数: 20

Interpreting the Sustainable Development Goals through the Perspectives of Utopia and Governance 从乌托邦和治理的视角解读可持续发展目标

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FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-01-14 DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2020.1867889

T. Eskelinen

引用次数: 8

Politics of Urban Transformation in Pre-Olympic Rio de Janeiro: Contentions and Confluences Between Citizen- and Market-centred Agendas 里约奥运会前的城市转型政治：以公民为中心和以市场为中心的议程之间的争论与冲突

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FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2020.1832569

Celina Myrann Sørbøe

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引用次数: 1

Narrating Green Economies in the Global South 讲述全球南方的绿色经济

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FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2020.1858954

Jill Tove Buseth

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引用次数: 3

Uganda – the Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation 乌干达——新自由主义转型的动力

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FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2021.1885182

M. Bøås

引用次数: 1

Ghana’s Bui Hydropower Dam and Linkage Creation Challenges 加纳布伊水电站大坝和建立联系的挑战

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FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2020.1858953

Kwame Adovor Tsikudo

引用次数: 4

Back to the Future? Charting Features of the Not-So-New Convergence in Aidland 回到未来?Aidland不太新趋同的特征图表

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FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-12-12 DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2020.1851753

Simon Pahle

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Public Opinion in Iceland on Aid During the Ebola Epidemic in West Africa 西非埃博拉疫情期间冰岛民众对援助的看法

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FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-11-25 DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2020.1851754

Elín Broddadóttir, G. Gunnlaugsson, J. Einarsdóttir

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Siziphile Land Occupations, Wilderness Farming, Threat of the Wild and Livelihood Vulnerability in Western Lupane District 西部Lupane地区的土地占用、荒野耕作、野生威胁和生计脆弱性

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FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-10-09 DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2020.1830849

V. Thebe

引用次数: 1

Rich and Naïve? Assessing the Effects of Norwegian Aid on Political Corruption, 1980–2018 有钱和Naïve?评估挪威援助对政治腐败的影响，1980-2018

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FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-10-03 DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2020.1829028

Elise Støver Toft, Indra de Soysa

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引用次数: 2