. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision …-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same time, decentralization has reverse effects, e.g., through coordination … consider how both anti-poverty instruments - financial assistance and decentralization - work together. …

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we … decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that fiscal decentralization negatively impacts aid effectiveness, while measures of … political decentralization have no significant effect or even a positive one. This result is robust for grants and overall ODA …

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

This paper shows that the inefficiency of fiscal decentralization in the presence of spillovers, a main tenet of the … decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation context. In a monocentric city where road (bridge) capacity …