Sentences with phrase «rwandan decentralisation»

«Its so - called advantages — scarcity, authenticity, strong liquidity, transparency and decentralisation — are only covers for speculation and can not support its volatile price.»

It said bitcoin's bubbles were created by a combination of hype, mystery, decentralisation and possible insider trading, suggesting that a small group of bitcoin owners were speculating on its price and manipulating general investors.

The Nationals leader Brendon Grylls has devised a bold decentralisation policy involving nine towns and $ 86m this year.

What has happened to the concept of decentralisation?

The New York Stock Exchange in January bought a stake in Coinbase, a bitcoin wallet, in case stock exchanges decided to go for decentralisation.

At the same time, however, new technologies in the telecommunication and information sectors are making it easier for institutions to co-ordinate regional activities and have tended to encourage decentralisation of some financing activities, particularly those where proximity to clients is an advantage.

Or is their no - fee model a better user - interface than the transference fees for decentralisation?

Are ASIC chips undermining Satoshi's dream of decentralisation?

The future of money may or may not include a Federal Reserve Bank of Amazon, but it probably does involve the gradual decentralisation and democratisation of currency.

Bitcoin itself is a paragon of decentralisation: Its payment system is kept up by a distributed peer - to - peer network of users (the blockchain) rather than by a single authority.

The beauty of Bitcoin is total decentralisation.

Furthermore, decentralisation ensures that even if one of these devices fails, all of the data remains secure elsewhere.

If true, this fact likely has legal consequences and rather undermines the «Decentralisation Defence» being put to the regulators by industry lobbyists.

Yesterday, he decided that decentralisation was a worthy topic, even after suing a crypto project to death back in 2014.

Most importantly, he claims that blockchain and decentralisation are independent.

Many were of the view that this went contrary to the notion of decentralisation.

Interestingly, the young founder of Tetras Capital argued that the crypto space needs to stop falling for the commonly misunderstood decentralisation hype.

The story of the gospels and of Acts seems to me to be one of decentralisation of power, as NP suggested.

But I took the decentralisation in NP's post to be in regards of power.

There was the devaluation of the CFA franc, the structural adjustment programme with the disengagement of the State, the process of decentralisation.

Furthermore, State decentralisation, the importance given to municipal authorities and linked organisations (e.g. the panchayat in India or CACES in Haiti) are all steps forward provided that they are not conceived simply as forms of dismantling the State.

The internet revolution of the mid-1990s, the mushrooming of partnerships and of informal transnational governance networks (grouping multibillion dollar foundations, like - minded politicians, NGOs, representatives of the world of finance, enterprises, academics...), globalisation under all its forms and the decentralisation and regionalisation strategy of the UN effectively brought the global agenda to the regional, national and local levels.

In general, big brands like Nescafe are more suspect: the larger the company, the more decentralisation and thus difficulty in monitoring the goings - on at all stages of production.

He also spoke with senior researchers and staff from the Regional Australia Institute about the role of the regions on the national policy agenda and where core issues like labour force demands and decentralisation fit into the overall economic picture.

Fear of this scenario has been an obstacle to decentralisation in the past.

Mr Cable said the Tory leader was in «cloud cuckoo land» if he expected the Lib Dems to work alongside the Conservative party over decentralisation.

HS2 is meant to aid the decentralisation of economic power away from the south - east, and enable areas like the midlands, the north - east and north - west to become more attractive to investors.

Despite Australia's high level of political decentralisation, no - one outside the caucus in Canberra has any say in the Federal leadership contest.

Clarity on commitment to decentralisation, including opportunities for local action in Community Energy, Smart Cities and the Internet of Things, which are new developments that hold considerable potential, but developers and entrepreneurs are held back where there is lack of clarity in the government's intent.

Although the public long showed a lack of interest on issues of decentralisation for England, this trend too seems to be reversing.

Similarly, regional newspapers have also focused on issues of regionalism and decentralisation, as illustrated for example by the Yorkshire Post's recent publication of a «Yorkshire Manifesto» in view of the 2015 general election.

The key themes and questions underpinning the narrative of this nascent «Northern regionalism» were unpacked and discussed at length in a symposium held at the University of Huddersfield (co-sponsored by the Centre for Research in the Social Sciences and the Political Studies Association and organised by the Britishness Specialist Group) on the 13th of February: «Decentralisation and the Future of Yorkshire».

My research interests include public budgeting, fiscal federalism, decentralisation, party politics, and Latin American politics.

Yorkshire First, the North East Party, the Campaign for the North and Mebyon Kernow offer an alternative programme of decentralisation, which is intrinsically bottom up, and based on the establishment of directly elected regional assemblies, with powers equal to those of the Scottish parliament.

The main focus of the assemblies will be devolution and decentralisation of power to English regions.

Personally, I suspect most of the ProgCons will be (substantively as well as tactically) a socially and liberally economic right - with a lot of decentralisation / empowerment thrown in - and that the right communitarians will probably turn out to have rather more in common with traditional conservatism (and some of the left communitarians) rather more than the tory modernisers.

In essence, the Conservative approach to English devolution focuses on three themes: a better and more balanced economy; bespoke Growth Deals and decentralisation of powers to (large) cities which choose to have elected mayor; and English Votes for English Laws (EVEL).

Greg Clark is Minister for Decentralisation and also the Coalition's new Minister for Cities.

Also on the republican list of demands: abolition of the Privy Council; full proportional representation in elections for the House of Commons; decentralisation of power to local and community authorities; a voting age of 16; fixed - term parliaments; state funding of political parties; a ban on outside earnings for MPs; more powerful Commons select committees, with powers to confirm or block ministerial appointments; elected police chiefs and elected mayors in all the major cities.

Today, the Government, in which I serve as Minister for Decentralisation, is publishing what could be seen as a sequel — but not just another a pamphlet, because this is a guide to a groundbreaking piece of legislation, the Localism Bill.

This requires restructuring the state so that individuals participate more directly in decision - making (for instance, through decentralisation and collective co-production).

The decentralisation of oil wealth will also break - up governments» ownership of petrodollar wealth and lead to improved transparency, good governance and trust among the Arab people.

The government must also ensure that every council plays its part in meeting UK climate targets by introducing local carbon budgets in the decentralisation and localism bill.

«For me, such a constitutional convention must approach its task with a particular state of mind about the need to enable both mutual flourishing and a capacity for the UK to think and act together as a Union, as a collectivity amongst all the devolution and decentralisation.»

Ms Nkrumah stated that her administration would lift Ghana from the economic quagmire it was in and practice proper decentralisation where the grassroots would be part of decision making.

The research team, led by Dr Sarah Ayres, conducted interviews with senior Whitehall officials in which they found a growing awareness of the need to boost the competitiveness of England's economically weaker regions and to improve services through decentralisation and empowerment.Whitehall officials viewed the first round of RFAs in 2006 as generally positive - in particular, the main beneficiary had been the Department for Transport and transport policy.

A key principle here is that devolution and decentralisation ought to be bottom - up processes with real accountability to local people.

The present Government's scheme for a northern powerhouse to be directed by a DEEM covering combined local authorities is promoted by the Treasury — to the amazement of many because in the past it has resisted decentralisation of powers, fiscal discretion and resources to elected local authorities, as George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted in his speech earlier this month.

Greg Clark, decentralisation Minister, comments on the communities and local government committee report on local planning:

Professor Whitefield and Dr Chaisty have published on «Putin's nationalism problem», and working papers on «Dimensions of Nationalism in Putin's Russia and their Political Correlates» and «Citizens» Attitudes towards Institutional Change in Contexts of Political Turbulence: Support for Regional Decentralisation in Ukraine» are forthcoming.