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 …

. Building on insights provided by the “second generation” wave of research on fiscal federalism, this paper proposes a unified … model to account for this. The idea is that decentralization serves as a commitment device to ensure that ex post chose … the decentralization process in China in 1980-1990s, as well as the fact that government decentralization is generally …

decentralization, federalism, and aggregate decentralization. Our results show that fiscal and administrative decentralization are …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 …

control variables and method of estimation. -- terrorism ; decentralization ; federalism ; governance quality ; government … decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

. 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 …

Fiscal federalism concerns the division of policy responsibilities among different levels of government. Many current … favorable to fiscal federalism, yet countries are further decentralizing their fiscal systems. We summarize the efficiency and … equity aspects fiscal decentralization, fiscal competition, fiscal externalities, and intergovernmental grants. The survey …

explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal …-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes - "decentralization" and "centralization" - when "knowledge … government levels. It is shown that, depending on which level of policy decision-making controls the degree of decentralization …

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 …