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 …

"In 1993, India introduced quota-based political reservations for women in rural areas with the objective to promote …

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 …

Nations 2007), 64 percent of whom live in rural areas. These rural areas are undergoing radical, noticeable change … 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 …

facto model of local governance in India is therefore an unanswered empirical question. This paper examines the question of …