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The importance of being local? : administrative decentralization and human development
Chaudhary, Latika; Lakshmi Iyer - 2024
governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545252
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Fiscal decentralisation, local institutions and public goods provision : evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2012
Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence of heterogeneity in access to public goods across...
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Management and performance in the public sector : evidence from German municipalities
Englmaier, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; … - 2022
We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial heterogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This heterogeneity is not driven by differences across...
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The impact of fiscal and political decentralization on local public investments in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir Putra, Bambang Suharnoko … - 2014
We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230500
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Decentralizing education resources : school grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503454
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Dark half: decentralized bargaining and well-being at work
Maczulskij, Terhi; Haapanen, Mika; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2021
separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in Finland. Our regression results with individual … employees in blue-collar intensive firms show quite strong and negative responses to decentralization. Decentralization affects …. Whether the mechanisms between decentralization and worker's well-being is explained by pay dispersion, wage level, or …
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Distributional effects of intergovernmental transfers in Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Cadena, Kiyomi; Moreno … - 2020
A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...
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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017
. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762207
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Making aid work : governance and decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440614
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Decentralizing development : evidence from government splits
Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024
Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463692