The paper considers different possibilities for an evaluation of Danish aid management by outlining major changes of international and Danish development co-operation over the last 20 years. It involves the discussion of aid management in general and in relation to pragmatic co-operation...

For developing countries, decentralising power from central government to local authorities holds the promise of deepening democracy, empowering citizens, improving public services and boosting economic growth. But the evidence on when and how decentralisation can bring these benefits has been...

We study the impact of taxation on the location choices of individuals and tax bases in Italy. We exploit some recent tax decentralization reforms, which granted regions and municipalities greater power in setting income tax rates across brackets. Combining granular micro-level data on tax...