, 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 …

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for … in terms of achieving good governance, and to the recipients in terms of what they receive. The leaders of potential … receiving countries prefer that each country obtains the proportion of aid relative to its governance quality. If poverty …

Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of … expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of government using a data-set of Swiss cantons. We first provide … careful evidence that expenditure decentralization is a powerful proxy for legal local autonomy. Further panel regressions of …

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level … societies, it appears to leave a positive legacy in terms of local cooperation and civic engagement. We discuss, synthesize 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 …