What effect does democratization have on meritocratic practices in the civil service? Democratization increases … servants' performance-enhancing characteristics, democratization increases discrimination. The author test this argument using … servants. The author exploits the exogenous timing of Indonesia's democratization in 1999, paired with an individual …

Decentralization and Deconcentration) in Cambodia and describes how their design, implementation, and institutional arrangements can be …

ongoing decentralization process. The note recognizes the potential of decentralization to enhance local service delivery, if … done well. Hence, the policy note assesses the current state of decentralization in Togo, with a specific focus on … decentralization from central government to communes, the lowest level of government, and front-line for local service delivery. The …

. This report analyzes recent trends of the fiscal decentralization process in Peru and presents a set of reform options … designed to harvest the envisaged efficiency and equity gains in service delivery that the fiscal decentralization was expected …

Myanmar's decentralization of governance, financing and service delivery is taking place against aparticularly …

This policy note presents the main features of the fiscal decentralization framework in Croatia, analyzed in reference …

This policy note presents the main features of the fiscal decentralization framework in Croatia, analyzed in reference …