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Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...
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Donor support for decentralization comes in two main categories: recommendations at the policy level and project … activities at the programming level. At the policy level, donors promote decentralization by recommending greater autonomy for … subnational actors. That is, they advocate for reforms that increase the extent (or 'quantity') of decentralization. At the …
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Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...
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Vertical decentralization, either at the deconcentration, delegation or, more rarely, the devolution level, has been … decentralization, shifting the decision-making power from the central ministry of finance to the ministries of education and health, as … decentralization with its important ethnic dimension and vertical decentralization. Local governments are accountable to the center …
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How should local service delivery of public goods and services be improved for desirable development outcomes? This paper attempts at answering this question by providing a framework for improving local service delivery. It argues that improving local service delivery is a function of...
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public utility provision. However, the successful decentralization of state activity in Bogotá has implied an intensification …
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. Burkina Faso is involved in a decentralization process that led recently to the creation of thirteen administrative regions …
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We show that when democratic and autocratic governments peacefully compete for governance over the same jurisdiction the autocratic has a natural advantage. The autocratic government, which unambiguously reduces welfare for everyone except the autocrat, will drive the competing democratic...
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Vertical decentralization, either at the deconcentration, delegation or, more rarely, the devolution level, has been … decentralization, shifting the decision-making power from the central ministry of finance to the ministries of education and health, as … decentralization with its important ethnic dimension and vertical decentralization. Local governments are accountable to the center …
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