good governance (using latent variable approach) and a financial decentralisation index. Panel data is employed to explore … if better quality of institutional arrangements (of governance and more financial decentralisation) lead to better …

From Decentralisation of Planning to Peoples Planning - Experiences of the Indian States of Kerala and West Bengal by … Charvak, 2000: The Discussion Paper attempts a comparison of the process of decentralisation of planning in the two States … experiments of decentralisation. A detailed account of the Kalliasseri experiment (from Resource Mapping to Peoples Plan Campaign …

about state capacity in Nigeria by taking stock of economic and governance issues. Using a simple growth model, we …

investment can be measured, analyzed, and compared across countries, and that governance is key to the business environment and … investment climate. The survey findings suggest that key policy, institutional and governance indicators affect the growth of a …

topic of governance saw us fly off in many directions, and after some discussion of public sector reform processes we found … the aspects of governance, however, allows little to be studied in depth, and anyway that is not the objective of this … research project. This paper therefore begins by making clear the nature of governance generally and then how and why this …

We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of … framework and a set of hypotheses, and then test them econometrically. The findings suggest that good governance and …

of governance standards; ii) in misgoverned settings, FDI firms may magnify the problems of state capture and procurement …