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Clientelism, public goods provision, and governance

Lo Bue, Maria C.; Sen, Kunal; Lindberg, Staffan I. - 2021

, increased political corruption, and weaker rule of law. We also find that the deleterious effects of political clientelism are …

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Verticle decentralization and urban service delivery in South Africa: Does politics matter?

Cameron, Robert - 2012

This study examines the role of politics on decentralization and service delivery in South Africa, with a specific … focus on Johannesburg and Cape Town. The research delineates how national decentralization has affected service delivery …

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Statebuilding in fragile countries: What can we learn from past stateness?

Vaccaro, Andrea; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2024

Supporting state capacity is a priority for the international community, yet the record of internationally supported statebuilding to date has been mixed at best. A key question for continuing research concerns the factors influencing more versus less successful interventions. We show that the...

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Approaches to supporting local and community development: Brazil and the Vale SA model of corporate interaction

Filgueiras, Liesel; Rabetim, Andreia; Aché, Isabel - 2017

Reflection about the role of corporate social investment in Brazil, associated with the presence of a large economic enterprise, is the major stimulus of this paper. It seeks to present how cross-sector governance can contribute to the social development of a city and how this process can be led...

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Compliance rates with local and national business taxes: Evidence from Kampala, Uganda

Vincent, Rose Camille; Dietrich, Stephan; McNabb, Kyle - 2023

This paper investigates business tax compliance in a multilevel tax structure with limited coordination. We study the case of Kampala, where firms are taxed at national and local levels-by the Uganda Revenue Authority and the Kampala Capital City Authority, respectively-and where the agencies...

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A macroeconomic perspective on Asian development

Bhaduri, Amit - 2018

Macroeconomic strategies and policies have differed significantly among Asian countries over the last fifty years, and yet some common issues recur despite their immense diversity in inherited historical initial conditions, differences in political systems, geo-political situations, location and...

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Donor assistance and urban service delivery in Africa

Stren, Richard - 2012

Sub-Saharan African cities have been growing at historically unprecedented rates. Since the early 1970s, they have welcomed international assistance involving a succession of major thematic objectives. The main agency involved in urban assistance has been the World Bank. But as its goals have...

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Decentralized service delivery in Nairobi and Mombasa: Policies, politics and inter-governmental relations

Mitullah, Winnie V. - 2012

In many African countries, decentralization has long been viewed as a means for improving local service delivery. Yet …, despite various decentralization initiatives, poor service delivery continues to be problematic in two of Kenya's largest … cities, Nairobi and Mombasa. Despite various governance reforms to enhance Kenya's decentralization process, backed up by …

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Opposition politics and urban service delivery in Kampala, Uganda

Lambright, Gina M. S. - 2012

Uganda, like other African countries, has implemented reforms to decentralize political authority to local governments and reintroduce multiparty elections. This combination creates opportunities for national partisan struggles to emerge in local arenas and influence local service delivery. This...

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The rise and fall of decentralization in contemporary Uganda

Green, Elliott - 2013

There has long been an emphasis on the importance of decentralization in providing better quality public services in … the developing world. In order to assess the effectiveness of decentralization I examine here the case study of Uganda …, which has seen major decentralization of power over the last quarter-century. Initial excitement about Uganda …

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