Decentralization and Poverty Reduction: Opportunities and Challenges in Kenya

Fiscal Decentralization in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities

Fiscal Decentralization in Asia Challenges and Opportunities This publication discusses the decentralization issues faced by countries of Asia and the Pacific. It includes practical suggestions on how to proceed in this area to achieve economic growth, macroeconomic stability, poverty and income distribution, services delivery improvements, and political accountability. This note elaborates on ...

Islam; Challenges and Opportunities

Undoubtedly Islamic Revolution of Iran has been the source of Islamic awakening in the middle-east. Therefore Islamic Republic of Iran plays the role of an example and a director of political developments in the region. Islamic awakening in Arab countries has been able to question the dominant discourse of dictators in the middle-east region and topple their regimes. These developments include ...

Decentralization in Distributed Systems : Challenges , Technologies , and Opportunities

In recent years, decentralization in distributed computing systems, such as Grids and Clouds has been widely explored in order to improve system performance in terms of scalability and reliability. However, the decentralized nature of the system also raises some serious challenges. This chapter discusses the major challenges of designing and implementing decentralization in Grid and Cloud syste...

Ending Rural Poverty: Challenges and Opportunities

fastest and most widespread retreat of poverty, hunger, premature death and illiteracy in history. Most of those affected were the rural poor of the developing world. However, large rural areas, containing hundreds of millions of people, remain trapped in poverty; since  its retreat has been much slower. This report has explored the nature of the rural poor; who they are; where they are; wh...

Gender and Reduction of Poverty in Iran