. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision …-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same time, decentralization has reverse effects, e.g., through coordination … consider how both anti-poverty instruments - financial assistance and decentralization - work together. -- foreign aid ; growth …

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we … decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that fiscal decentralization negatively impacts aid effectiveness, while measures of … political decentralization have no significant effect or even a positive one. This result is robust for grants and overall ODA …

administrative co-operation with the central government and of the less well-developed financial market in Poland, the Slovak …

states' performance and overall decentralization are viewed somewhat differently. With regard to tax administration …Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual … study the relative influences of different types of decentralization, including fiscal decentralization, administrative …

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 …

Since the introduction of the HIPC Initiative in the early 2000s, indebted LICs had to show a decent governance …, respectively. Our main finding shows, that improvements in governance quality led to higher levels of debt forgiveness in 2000 …