This paper uses data on elected village councils in South India to examine the political economy of public resource …

for this to happen, there is a need for the domestic reforms that relate with the decentralisation of administrative and …

relevant to the literature on decentralisation, outsourcing, subcontracting and intra-firm organization. …

government policies facilitate the excessive decentralization of people and jobs and how smart growth reforms are being enacted …

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 …

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 on the effects of decentralisation in each. In Bolivia …

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 …

effect of car density are explored: (i) increasing car density permits a decentralization of residential and economic …