developing world. Such extra legal existence of informal production is facilitated through extortion by agents of political … forces in power. Also extortion activities themselves constitute an informal segment. Full scale general equilibrium …

developing world. Such extra legal existence of informal manufacturing and service sectors is facilitated through extortion by … agents of political forces in power. Such extortion activities themselves constitute an informal segment. We develop a … general equilibrium model to explore the possible consequences of a change in the degree of extortion, change in the quality …

for more fiscal decentralization. Within this subject, this paper has the goal of contributing to the discussion on tax … fiscal decentralization policy in Mexico. …

The aim of this article is to analyze the impact of the decentralization of the public national health system in Spain … Barometer 1996-2009 and taking advantage of the exogeneity of the different pace of decentralization across Spain, we find that …, in general, decentralization has not improved citizens’ satisfaction with different features of the health services. In …

decentralization, which is seen to be an important part of incentive compatibility. In the case of low-income housing it cites the … privatization of sites and services and devolution of upgrading as two promising models of decentralization. …