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 …

I examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics that it unleashes. The national effects of … decentralization are simply the sum of its local-level effects. Hence to understand decentralization we must first understand how local … comparative analysis to test the theory's predictions with qualitative and quantitative evidence from Bolivia. The combined …

I examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics that it unleashes. The national effects of … decentralization are simply the sum of its local-level effects. Hence to understand decentralization we must first understand how local … comparative analysis to test the theory's predictions with qualitative and quantitative evidence from Bolivia. The combined …

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 …

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 …

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

new indigenous political class. Decentralization was the trigger - not the cause - that made Bolivia's latent cleavage …For 50 years Bolivia's political party system was a surprisingly robust component of an otherwise fragile democracy … nation's politics from a typical 20th century, left-right axis of competition deeply unsuited to a society like Bolivia, to …

the remarkable case of Bolivia with the more complex case of Colombia to explore decentralization´s effects on public … education outcomes. In Colombia, decentralization of education finance improved enrollment rates in public schools. In Bolivia …The effects of decentralization on public sector outputs is much debated but little agreed upon. This paper compares …

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 …