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Race to the top and race to the bottom: Tax competition in rural China:

Yao, Yi; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"Fiscal federalism has been argued to intensify regional competition and promote economic growth. This paper is the first, to our knowledge, to empirically assess the patterns and extent of strategic tax competition between geographically neighboring governments in China. Using a panel data set...

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Governance decentralization and local infrastructure provision in Indonesia:

Chowdhury, Shyamnal; Yamauchi, Futoshi; Dewina, Reno - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

This paper examines the recent decentralization of governance in Indonesia and its impact on local infrastructure … provision. The decentralization of decisionmaking power to local jurisdictions in Indonesia may have improved the matching of … public infrastructures provision with local preferences. However, decentralization has made local public infrastructures …

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Decentralization and local public services in Ghana: Do geography and ethnic diversity matter?

Akramov, Kamiljon T.; Asante, Felix Ankomah - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"This paper explores disparities in local public service provision between decentralized districts in Ghana using district- and household-level data. The empirical results show that districts' geographic locations play a major role in shaping disparities in access to local public services in...

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The effects of political reservations for women on local governance and rural service provision:

Raabe, Katharina; Sekher, Madhushree; Birner, Regina - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"In 1993, India introduced quota-based political reservations for women in rural areas with the objective to promote gender equality in human development by making rural service provision and local governance inclusive and responsive to the needs of women. Recent evidence shows that reservation...

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Agricultural extension services and gender equality: An institutional analysis of four districts in Ethiopia

Cohen, Marc J.; Lemma, Mamusha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

provision more responsive to users. Ethiopia has undertaken two rounds of decentralization, making first the regional states and … then the district governments responsible for providing key public services. This paper explores whether decentralization …

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Decentralization and public service delivery in Nigeria:

Okojie, Christiana - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

that rural areas have sizes below this cut-off (Onokerhoraye 1984). Decentralization has become a key issue in development … policy in the last two decades. Decentralization is a process of transitioning from a governance structure in which power is …

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Sarpanch raj: is the President all powerful?

Palaniswamy, Nethra - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

The policy of mandated representation (reservation) for disadvantaged social groups in Indian village councils or Gram Panchayats has been the subject of numerous studies. The implicit, and often unstated, assumption that underlies most of these studies is that the president of the council is...

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Do external grants to district governments discourage own-revenue generation?: A look at local public finance dynamics in Ghana

Mogues, Tewodaj; Benin, Samuel; Cudjoe, Godsway - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

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Decentralization, agricultural services and determinants of input use in Nigeria:

Akramov, Kamiljon T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

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Reducing poverty and hunger in Asia:

Islam, Nurul ed. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

Investment Priorities for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Asia Shenggen Fan, Joanna Brzeska, and Ghada Shields

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