Sentence examples for subnational from inspiring English sources

Also, the general election in May is looking ever more likely to result in another coalition government; if this includes the Scottish Nationalist Party or the Greens, or perhaps even the UK Independence Party, issues at the subnational level will become increasingly important.

In a second "big bang" reform in 2006, transfers to subnational governments increased by almost 50%, by the World Bank's calculation, mainly benefiting the poorer provinces.

A study this year by the Economy and Environment Programme for South-East Asia, based in Singapore, mapped vulnerability to climate change across the region, divided into 530 subnational districts.

In the first stage of this, in 2001, the two provinces with the strongest claim to statehood Papua (since divided into two provinces, Papua and West Papua) and Aceh were granted enhanced autonomy.Meanwhile resources and responsibilities were transferred from central government to subnational ones primarily provinces and kabupaten, or districts which became responsible for most public services.

They want to be recognised as such, to have all the powers they judge necessary to control their own affairs and to take advantage of the rights of representation that now exist in the EU for subnational governments.So do they want to secede?

Mr Cameron's Conservative government will now write his proposals which include devolution of income-tax rates and bands, air-passenger duty and certain welfare benefits—into law before the end of the year, making Scotland about as self-governing as subnational units in federal states like Switzerland and Canada.

The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe is a consultative body that represents local and regional (subnational) governments within the council.

For example, in countries with great disparities in the wealth and resources of different regions, the transfer of funding and administrative responsibilities to subnational governmental units (on provincial, departmental, municipal, and even specific-school levels) may lead to increasing gaps between educational outcomes for the rich and the poor.

In much of the developing world, nationalist political movements and a variety of modern economic forces have swept away the traditional structures of local government, and the quasi-autonomous governments of village and tribe and province have been replaced by centrally directed systems of subnational administration.

The attachments that people have to subnational political communities are loosened when they must depend for their security on the national power.

These subnational entities are generally represented at the national level, possibly on an equal footing, in a second chamber of the national legislature (often called the upper house, or senate).