democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …We revisit Lipset‘s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using …

Several transition economies have undertaken fiscal decentralization reforms over the past two decades along with … liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances …

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. A BENCHMARK: PRINCIPLES OF DECENTRALIZATION REFORM -- III. UGANDA …'S DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS: THE INSTITUTIONS -- IV. SPECIFIC OUTCOMES IN SERVICE DELIVERY -- V. FINAL REMARKS -- References. …

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BACKGROUND -- III. DECENTRALIZATION AND OVERALL FISCAL CONSTRAINTS -- IV …

only if the size of the locked-in effect exceeds some threshold. Further, progressive decentralization through airdrops can …

Does fiscal decentralization improve health and educational outcomes? Does this improvement depend on the quality of … governance? How do fiscal decentralization and governance interact? We answer these questions through an instrumental variable … Tobit analysis of cross-country panel data. We find negative effects of fiscal decentralization on health outcomes, which …

democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …We revisit Lipset?s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using …

sovereign debt is to maintain access to international capital markets. However, in a democracy, one generation may choose …

to the question by analyzing the joint impact of democracy and geopolitical distance between countries with an augmented … distance in determining bilateral trade flows and that democracy fosters international trade and moderates the potential … negative impact of geopolitics. While the impact of democracy and its interaction with geopolitical distance are significant …