Access control administration regulates and enforces the definition of the components of an access control system by authorized administrative users. In this paper, the limitations on administrative aspects of well-known security models are addressed and the requirements for efficient management of authorizations are investigated in order to provide fine-grained and just-in-time access control ...

Health authorities in developing countries must often cope with rapid changes in the administrative, policy and socioeconomic contexts in which they work. Changes in this external environment have important implications for the roles that health planners can effectively play and the leverage they exercise throughout the system. This paper examines the challenges associated with reorienting mini...

Nepal's efforts to decentralize its governance date back to over half a century. These efforts remained incomplete due to different reasons including administrative responses and political development affecting its implementation. The Local Self Governance Act (LSGA), 1999 envisaged, for the first time, to decentralize governance in the health sector through devolution of responsibilities, auth...

Fiscal decentralization is not a new phenomenon for developing countries. Since the 1990s, most developing countries initiated the process of decentralization, combining political, administrative and fiscal aspects. It is a long-term gradual process of devolving revenue sources and expenditures functions from the central government to provincial and local levels. The benefits of engaging with t...

In Uganda, environmental and natural resource management is decentralized and has been the responsibility of local districts since 1996. This environmental management arrangement was part of a broader decentralization process and was intended to increase local ownership and improve environmental policy; however, its implementation has encountered several major challenges over the last decade. T...

Mohammad Mobarak Hossain*, Mahfuza Begum and Moshiur Rahman Author Affiliations Department of Agronomy, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Received: May 02, 2022 | Published: June 09, Corresponding author: Hossain, Mymensingh-2202, DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2022.44.007054

This paper presents an examination of the possible correlation between rising income inequalities at the regional level and widespread devolutionary initiatives worldwide. When the responsibilityand resource-based facets of decentralization are taken together, a marked congruency is evident between the two trends. While various spatial economic forces promote the emergence of core and periphera...

E-Government as a virtual enterprise, having many vertical portals, works in collaborative network to deliver e-services. The decentralization in egovernance depends on how much a governance structure decentralizes its political, fiscal and administrative powers. E-governance devolution areas may be planning, business process re-engineering, change management, enterprise architecture, networks,...

In this study we explore in detail the causes of corruption in China using two different sets of data at the regional level (provinces and cities). We observe that regions with more anti-corruption efforts, histories of British rule, higher openness, more access to media and relatively higher wages of government employees are markedly less corrupt; while social heterogeneity, regulation, abunda...