The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

This document aims to analyze empirically the effectiveness of decentralization in Bolivia. Effectiveness is understood … government's local investment (the Bolivia Cambia program) on the local administration. For this purpose, we use panel data … decentralization, most of them aligned with local needs. Likewise, significant effects are found in the behavior of local investment …

governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

elderly, using panel data on Swedish municipalities over 1996-2005. The high degree of decentralization in the organization of …

The paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on governance employing four indicators of governance and five … measures of decentralization. Depending on data availability, crosssections for a maximum of 129 countries are estimated …. Results for a panel of about 70 countries over the period 1984-2001 are also presented. The results show that decentralization …

elderly, using panel data on Swedish municipalities over 1996-2005. The high degree of decentralization in the organization of …

This paper revisits the fiscal decentralization theorem, by relaxing the role of the assumption that governments are …) centralization can welfare-dominate decentralization even if there are no externalities and regions are heterogenous; (ii …) decentralization can welfare-dominate centralization even if there are positive externalities and regions are homogenous. The intuition …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

We explore the effects of decentralization on education and health in Ethiopia using an original database covering all … the 1970s-80s were followed by federalization, decentralization, rapid growth and dramatic improvements in human … development. Did decentralization contribute to these successes? We use time series and panel data analyses to show that …