This article examines how fiscal decentralization can help improve economic growth (assuming predatory governments …

Decentralization is increasing in all parts of the world. Assessing the efficiency of decentralization as a means to … mitigate ethnic conflict is then of primarily importance. This paper builds a simple model of decentralization as an … empowerment mechanism. It suggests that decentralization could promote peace conditional on a set of countries and groups …

China’s actual fiscal decentralization is one-sided: while public expenditures are largely decentralized, fiscal …. These results suggest that the one-sided fiscal decentralization in China may have regressive environmental effects and …

While some scholars argue that fiscal decentralization gave Chinese local officials strong incentives to promote local …