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activities administrative agricultural Asian average Bahts Balikpapan Bangkok budget building capital central government centres Chinese City Council City Development Committee collected decentralization Department development plan districts division Dongs economic elected ethnic expenditure facilities federal finance functions Hai Phong Hanoi housing implementation income increase Indonesia industrial infrastructure inner city investment Ipoh issues Jakarta Kalimantan Kuala Lumpur Kyats land located major Malay Malaysia management of secondary Mandalay division MCDC million Minh City Ministry of Construction Nakhon Ratchasima municipality Nakhon Ratchasima province Office organizations peninsular Malaysia People's Committee Perak percent percentage policies political primate cities private sector problems programme projects province regional cities responsible revenue river roads role rural areas Samarinda secondary cities Sittwe social Source Southeast Asia spatial sq km staff structure Table Thailand Tho city towns townships units urban areas urban development urban management urban population Vietnam villages wards water supply Yangon zones
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Page 45 - ... operations. Since then, Myanmar has managed to implement the anti-narcotic operations without substantial external assistance. Realizing the need to promote the economic and social development of the border areas and to respond to the needs of the people living there, the Government has established the Ministry for Progress of Border Areas and National Races and Development Affairs since 1992. The Border Areas and National Races Development Central Committee and the Working Committee have been...
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Page 11 - These small centres were the dissemination points of colonial policy, through which the cash economy and the ideas of the West filtered into the countryside.
Page 34 - BOOK is based on the view that the day-to-day workings of city government in the United States are best understood by looking at the differences of opinion and interest that exist within the cities, at the issues that arise out of these differences, and at the ways institutions function to resolve (or fail to resolve) them.
Page 33 - ... improve the capability of local government units in undertaking urban development and housing projects.