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"While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is … understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization … often struggle with decisions about the essential components of decentralization, including the order of an introduction of …
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There are an estimated 1.2 billion regular smokers in the world today, approximately one third of the global population over the age of 15, and the numbers are rising (World Health Organization 2002). Studies show that many smokers still do not know that tobacco causes disease and premature...
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This publication addresses the question of whether political, fiscal, and administrative decentralization improves …-conflict countries. The publication is a collection of eight papers written by authors who were closely involved in the decentralization … local councils. Compared to most other Sub-Saharan African countries that have embarked upon decentralization, Sierra Leone …
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"This program evaluation estimates the effects on standardized test scores of graduating from the Fe y Alegria private school system in Venezuela. The authors find an Average Treatment Effect on the order of 0.1 standard deviations (approximately 16 percent of the average score), using a control...
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"Indonesia's "big bang" decentralization in 2001 shifted much of the responsibility for local economic development from …
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"There have been important developments in the decentralization of the government structure in Turkey since the early … economic effects of government decentralization from both developed and developing countries, these effects have not been … recent reform efforts. They then provide an empirical analysis of the effects of decentralization in Turkish provinces using …
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