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What is happening in Basildon is the tip of a large iceberg of under-provision by councils reluctant to challenge the prejudices of their voters.
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To the extent that credibility and age of democracy are related, though, younger democracies should exhibit the same behavior – under-provision of public goods, over-spending on transfers to narrow groups of citizens and high rent-seeking – predicted to emerge in countries where politicians are credible to only limited numbers of voters.
The Corruption Trap, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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They sound like nothing so much as their creators 'egos running amok, facilitated by an apparently limitless supply of budget and a woeful under-provision of good judgement.
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There was a 10.4 percent under-provision of "acute beds" in the public sector, while public hospitals were under-resourced by 52.1 percent.
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There is also technological under-provision: per capita expenditure on IT is low compared to South Africa's competitors, investment in research and development is low, public science and technology infrastructure is weak, and there are low levels of public science awareness.
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Deficiencies in the current system of infrastructure provision pose the inherent danger of both the under-provision of services or the "duplication" of services and may result in wastage of the country's limited resources.
An integrated and accelerated approach to infrastructure development 2002
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“There is an under-provision of legal services in this country,” he says, adding that the Web offers “a new and accessible delivery system.”
E-COMMERCE THE STAFF OF The Wall Street Journal 2001
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As a result, there is massive under-provision in this area.
REPORT: BEIJING + 5 2000
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South Africa's repo rate through the under-provision of liquidity to the banking sector could derail the SARB's efforts to bring inflation down into the target range.
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Jly 31 of a 100 million rand under-provision, but has reduced its estimated liquidity requirement to the 8.3 billion rand level from
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