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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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"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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decentralization is associated with improved fiscal performance and better functioning of internal common markets. Fiscal policy … discipline. Fiscal decentralization poses significant challenges for macroeconomic management. These challenges require careful …
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"Empowerment of local governments and citizens is a primary object of decentralization. Using the analytic lens of … less empowering. His primary concern is fiscal decentralization, specifically the association between fiscal determinants …
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