Sentence examples for intergovernmental grants from inspiring English sources

This paper provides a simple political agency model to explain the effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on intergovernmental grants and election outcomes.

Allowing intergovernmental grants to be designed optimally, we ask whether project authority should rest with the region or with the central government.

An increase in intergovernmental grants, in turn, can be explained by a larger share of incumbents affiliated with national political parties.

The widespread use of intergovernmental grants sometimes blurs the distinctions among the levels of government, but the differences do exist and they are relatively persistent.

By using the previous year's municipal enrollments relative to the state's enrollment in basic education as an instrument for the amount of funds received from intergovernmental grants, represented by FUNDEB, we estimate the responses of the Brazilian municipal governments to three different types of revenues (locally collected versus state and federal transfers tied to education).

"If," DiIulio calculates, "only one-fifth of the 11 million nonprofit sector employees owe their jobs to federal or intergovernmental grant, contract or fee funding, that's 2.2 million workers" — slightly more than the official federal workforce.

The chapel and tombs, as well as Besakana and Mahitsielafanjaka, have since been fully restored with bilateral government donations, state funds and grants from intergovernmental and private donors.

In Texas, a similarly sweeping anti-Agenda 21 bill submitted this year sought to prevent any governmental entity from accepting money from or granting money to any "nongovernmental or intergovernmental organization accredited by the United Nations to implement a policy that originated in the Agenda 21 plan".

To increase the intensity of efforts that local governments can make to implement earmarked policies (e.g., (supra)national mandates or national grants offered by central government), central governments can use intergovernmental policies.

In parallel, Indonesia also commenced implementation of a new intergovernmental fiscal framework; the apparent district share in government spending almost doubled; and the balance between general grants and grants earmarked by the centre for specific sectors and functions seemed to change markedly in favor of general grants, the sectoral allocation of which was to be decided by local government.

His many awards include a MacArthur "genius" grant, and he contributed to research that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.