The role of decentralized government in disaster management is well recognized among international donors and policy makers. However, there has been no rigorous attempt to address this issue. This paper studies the effect of fiscal and political decentralization on the death toll and the number...

The literature on mother's education and child health casually observes some nonlinearities and also a threshold in the relationship. Even though this nonlinearity or threshold has significant bearing on policy matters, any rigorous attempt to address this issue is missing in the literature....