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"Indonesia's "big bang" decentralization in 2001 shifted much of the responsibility for local economic development from … has varied widely. This paper attempts to understand the determinants of sub-national (district/city) growth in Indonesia …
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unrest. Following Indonesia's transition towards democracy and decentralization in the late 1990s, the Special Autonomy Law …The region of Papua occupies a special place in Indonesia. It is the country's easternmost, largest and most sparsely … populated region. Ever since its integration into Indonesia in 1969 Papua has been troubled by separatist movements and social …
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decentralization, in a likely challenging near to medium term period in Indonesia. It addresses the major government reorganization … decentralization of spending authority, enhanced access to resources at local government levels, and civil service reform. The … potential health system benefits, associated with decentralization, will enable citizens to become involved systematically in …
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Indonesia has embarked upon a radical and rapid decentralization program. Regional autonomy is transforming one of the … diverse as Indonesia will benefit greatly from decentralization, through more efficient service delivery, but also national … recognized as much by calling for a thorough evaluation of the decentralization program, and adjustments of the decentralization …
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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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"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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