Decentralisation offers solutions – and snags
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A history of local elections in Penang Part I: Democracy Comes Early
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Fifty years ago, in March 1965, local elections were suspended throughout the newly founded Federation of Malaysia.Those were turbulent times in many ways, no...
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Injecting gender into the Penang Agenda
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Budgeting isn’t strictly about dollars and cents. Gender, for example, plays a role, too. But what exactly is gender responsive budgeting, and how is it d...
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