This paper provides the first experimental evaluation of the participatory budgeting model showing that it increased public participation in the process of public decision making, increased local tax revenues collection, channeled larger fractions of public budgets to services stated as top...

Recently China's central government has promoted public goods investment in pursuit of rural development and poverty reduction. However, the top down nature of investment planning may lead to mismatches between public goods projects and the demands of local residents. Using village- and...

Explication of reality may draw tools outside the phenomenon. That is the essence of case study, and the epistemological motivation of this paper. The paper illuminates the space of PPP policy in the UK. Yet, that illumination raises questions that stand to guide other countries, and the paper...

Two nodes are salient in the space of Africa's development. The first is a concern about population explosion harking back the sixties. The other is infrastructure, particularly at the unfolding of the new millennium. The two concerns have captivated the world of international development –...

The paper illuminates the non-ergodic space of Africa from a vantage point of transport research. It draws on the methodology and epistemology of case study to examine the dynamical space. The paper traces both the physical and social dimensions of transport research back to independence. It...

While previous literature has found that the effect of public services decentralization on quality of delivery and satisfaction is ambiguous, little evidence has been provided regarding the role that the efficiency of local governments may play in enhancing a decentralization reform. To shed...

Based on a unique data set on Russian city budgets, this paper shows that revenue sharing between regional and local governments provides local governments with no incentive to increase tax base or provide public goods. Any change in local government's own revenues is almost entirely offset by...

Altruism, giving and pro-social conduct, and reciprocity, are the basis of the existence and performance of societies, through their various occurrences: in families; among the diverse motives of the political and public sector; as the general respect and moral conduct which permit life in...

Eleven countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Changes in the food system are critical to achieving these carbon neutrality goals, as agriculture and the resulting land use changes are responsible for almost half of the greenhouse gas...

Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture and food system: natural resource management related...