Donor support for decentralization comes in two main categories: recommendations at the policy level and project … activities at the programming level. At the policy level, donors promote decentralization by recommending greater autonomy for … subnational actors. That is, they advocate for reforms that increase the extent (or 'quantity') of decentralization. At the …

accountability in decentralization and in public goods provision. …

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 …

. Using panel data from Vietnam we find evidence that households with connections to local government are more likely to be …

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

The development of institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform - the National Rural …

In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …

We examine the evolution of educational assistance in Indonesia, following two decades of government decentralization … in the implementation of government decentralization to compute difference-in-difference estimators. Indicative evidence … suggests decentralization has facilitated collusion between village authorities and marginalized private schools, with …

flexible institutional and policy response at each stage of development, which makes uniform guidelines misleadingly over-simplistic. …

the civil war in the early 1990s, the decentralization process began in Mozambique. Different research developed in recent … years shows that, as is the case in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the impact of the decentralization reforms on the … promotion of local development and the strengthening of democracy in Mozambique is modest. How can this modest impact be …