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The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences of increasing competition in the provision of them....
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A companion volume to the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption published in 2006, the specially commissioned papers in Volume Two present some of the best policy-oriented research in the field. They stress the institutional roots of corruption and include new research on topics...
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with changes created by decentralization is explored …
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This book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal … countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. Three key issues …
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these challenges is the recently enacted decentralization program, now well underway, which promises to have some wide … scholars, that take a hard, objective look at the many effects of decentralization on economic and political issues in …pt. 1. The history and politics of the 'big bang' decentralization -- pt. 2. Expenditure and tax assignment -- pt. 3 …
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pt. 1. Approaches to fiscal federalism -- pt. 2. Decentralization and development -- pt. 3. Implementing multilevel …
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Does decentralization enhance service delivery and poverty reduction? Drawing on cutting edge research, expert … an emphasis on the effectiveness of decentralized service delivery, the decentralization process in different parts of … the decentralization process. The role of international agencies, as explicit donors, is examined in several chapters …
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Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the...
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', in Ehtisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio (eds), Does Decentralization Enhance Service Delivery and Poverty Reduction … Ahmad and Vito Tanzi (eds), Managing Fiscal Decentralization, Chapter 10, London, UK and New York, NY: Routledge, 205 … Decentralization and Land Policies, Chapter 12, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 305-27 -- Iwan Barankay and Ben …
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