by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure … regression model with observations of the size and quality of infrastructure and social services in the villages and with … infrastructure and social services in adjacent villages. The results suggest that large-scale private forest plantations can …

This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure … types of infrastructure spending and linkages between the final and intermediate goods sectors. We find that infrastructure … multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income …

Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed … health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We estimate, decompose, and run counterfactual analysis of regional … health care decentralization in both countries. We find no evidence of increase in regional inequalities in outcomes and …

institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform - the National Rural Health Mission that introduced …

formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of Vietnam. This paper finds that the formally decentralized system … of public service supply is accommodating the informal one, but informal decentralization in public order provision tends … complementary rather than rival or free-riding on formal ones. -- formal decentralization ; informal decentralization ; sub …