liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances … over 19 years to address a central question of fact: Did privatization help to promote local governments' fiscal discipline …? The answer is clearly ‘no' for privatization considered in isolation. However, privatization and subnational fiscal …

India’s recently announced privatization strategy can facilitate a change in the composition of the public sector … description of the SOE sector in India, consider different criteria which can inform the scope and rationale for privatization. It … also highlights takeaways from international experience with privatization, highlights the importance of improved …

, while robots may raise productivity, they could also increase inequality by displacing low-skilled workers. We find that …

inlabor productivity in the wake of resource reallocation with the decline in mining investment,(iv) and the role of migration … adjustment ofworker hours over time. Labor productivity growth has sustained its historical average throughthe transition …

total factor productivity premium of 11-28 percent. The data do not allow testing of whether these premiums are caused by … data, we cannot disentangle its effect on productivity from those of more traditionally recognized channels of …