We estimate the impact of fiscal decentralization on different indicators of pollution for more than 80 countries from … 1970 to 2000. Our cross country estimates show that fiscal decentralization increases pollution. However, higher quality of … institutions can limit the destructive environmental effects of decentralization. The empirical results confirm a strand of the …

This discussion paper looks at the Bolivian decentralization model. The objective of Bolivian decentralization is to … distribution of national income and improved administration of public resources. The legal framework of Bolivian decentralization … is established by two principled laws; firstly, the LPP, defines decentralization on the municipal level and represents a …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

-critical services such as education, health, and water, with a view to formulating sectoral decentralization policy frameworks that … frameworks; (ii) decentralization can only create an enabling environment for local service delivery if and only if it is …

initiatives that have evolved following the onset of decentralization in Indonesia a decade ago. These initiatives materialized in …

capital. I find no robust evidence to corroborate the theoretically predicted benefits of decentralization. …

school resources differently as decentralization took place. Using municipal data the paper studies how per pupil spending …Sweden has undertaken major national reforms of its school sector which, consequently, has been classified as one of … the most decentralized ones in the OECD. This paper investigates whether school resources became more unequally …

elderly, using panel data on Swedish municipalities over 1996-2005. The high degree of decentralization in the organization of …