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decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly … are more likely to choose decentralization. Using three datasets of French and British firms in the 1990s, we report …
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Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralisation on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the cases of Bolivia and Colombia to explore decentralisation’s effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize economic data...
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The effects of decentralization on public sector outputs is much debated but little agreed upon. This paper compares … the remarkable case of Bolivia with the more complex case of Colombia to explore decentralization’s effects on public … education outcomes. In Colombia, decentralization of education finance improved enrollment rates in public schools. In Bolivia …
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effect of car density are explored: (i) increasing car density permits a decentralization of residential and economic …
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I examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics that it unleashes. The national effects of … decentralization are simply the sum of its local-level effects. Hence to understand decentralization we must first understand how local …
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Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralization on a number of important policy goals …. This paper examines the remarkable case of Bolivia to explore decentralization's effects on government responsiveness and … poverty-orientation. I first summarize econometric results on the effects of decentralization nationally, and then turn to …
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This paper uses data on elected village councils in South India to examine the political economy of public resource allocation. We find that the pattern of policy-making reflects politicians' self-interest. Elected councillors benefit from improved personal access to public resources. In...
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and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm … decentralization between countries, but especially within countries. Much of the poorer average management quality in countries like … decentralization; (2) larger firms, skillintensive plants and foreign multinationals appear better managed and are more decentralized …
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In the debate concerning a country’s structural weaknesses there is an obvious neglect of space issues, an important component of which is regional imbalances. Yet, the persistence of such imbalances within countries has dictated the continuous investigation of their causes and of the required...
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