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Is secessionism mostly about income or identity? : a global analysis of 3,003 subnational regions

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

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Population prospects and the determination of a debt-sharing rule between seceding regions

Cattoir, Philippe (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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War and stature : growing up during the Nigerian civil war

Akresh, Richard; Bhalotra, Sonia; Leone, Marinella; … - 2011

The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity...

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Making aid work : governance and decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...

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Shine a (night)light : decentralization and economic development in Burkina Faso

Bargain, Olivier; Vincent, Rose Camille; Caldeira, Emilie - 2024

Decentralization, championed by international institutions, has been one of the most prominent public sector reforms of … capacity to contribute to local development. We exploit the phase-in of decentralization at the commune level in Burkina Faso … impact of decentralization on the night-light intensity trends of the early-decentralized communes. This is supported by …

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The impact of fiscal and political decentralization on local public investments in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir Putra, Bambang Suharnoko … - 2014

We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …

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Decentralizing education resources : school grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...

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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

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Union membership and collective bargaining: trends and determinants

Schnabel, Claus - 2020

place. Bargaining coverage is usually high and stable in countries with multi-employer bargaining, and the decentralization …

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Distributional effects of intergovernmental transfers in Mexico

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Cadena, Kiyomi; Moreno … - 2020

A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...

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