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 … decentralization. As nothing much has happened with per pupil spending, the teacher-pupil ratio has become more evenly distributed …