, and/or the bureaucratic necessity of laying claim to having the bigger impact. The idea here is that good governance … argument for establishing good governance criteria is as much to put constraints on donor behavior as on the necessity of …

Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of … careful evidence that expenditure decentralization is a powerful proxy for legal local autonomy. Further panel regressions of … educational decentralization closing, for the Swiss case, the gender education gap …

colleagues. We estimate the rate of knowledge diffusion inside the firm using two matched worker-firm data sets from Morocco and … diffusion is around 7 percent in Morocco and Senegal, but part of the learning-by-watching returns stems from firm heterogeneity … Morocco …

Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia face challenges competing on the global markets, as shown by their relatively low and … misalignment, including in recent years, the exchange rates in Morocco and Tunisia have broadly reflected the underlying …

Morocco's local labor market outcomes vary. By combining three complementary approaches and modeling techniques, this paper …Morocco's trade liberalization policies have promoted economic progress over the past two decades. However, effects on … estimates: (i) how trade agreements have increased trade flows, (ii) the relationship between trade exposure and mixed local …

development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local …

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 communities in the period prior to fiscal decentralisation; with …

fiscal decentralization exerts an unequivocal positive effect on students' outcomes in all areas, while the effect of … exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme … for International Student Assessment (PISA) referred to 22 countries, we test whether there exists an impact of fiscal and …

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan … findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit …