Decentralisation of Economic Law—An Oxymoron?

Can the economic impact of political decentralisation be measured ?

This paper examines whether, given the increasing salience of subnational governments, political decentralisation has an impact on overall economic performance. It uses panel data analyses in order to determine the association between a number of the different indices of political decentralisation developed over the last decade and a half with two basic measures of economic performance: changes...

1. A Lawan

Parallel rays of light striking the eye in the position of rest are refracted and brought to a focus on the 1 retina. An eye that exhibits this condition is said to be emmetropic (normal). Refractive error or ametropia is said to occur when light rays striking the eye at rest are refracted but, not focused on the retina. Anisometropia is said to occur if there is a 2 difference in the refractiv...

Image Reproduction: An Oxymoron

In our daily lives dealing with images, we have the mental notion that we are reproducing an original. This notion is generally helpful in guiding image and colour processing decisions, but often it turns into a hindrance when the words we use lead to artifi cial constraints that we impose onto the problem. This paper describes some scenarios in which a broader defi nition of the word ‘reproduc...

Decentralisation and Local Governance

Design Research, an Oxymoron?