apparent aim to decentralize legislative and executive powers. This paper shows that the Georgian efforts of decentralization …

well as the relationship between public expenditure and decentralization, for Italian regions in the 1997-2009 period … expenditure on GDP) and the economic growth rate. The main results are twofold. First, when the degree of decentralization is … reasonably low (below the 31% of expenditure decentralization), a BARS curve has been successfully discovered, and the optimal …

public spending. Consequences on the degree of decentralization are investigated. The main findings are that for a large … decentralization. …

prepared personnel; the decentralization constraint should be considered according to the relocation of public services; a rent …

A central claim in favor of decentralization is that it will improve access to public services, but few studies examine … this question empirically. This paper explores the effects of decentralization on access to health and education in … decentralization improved enrollment rates in public schools and access of the poor to public health services. In both sectors …

. Given this general framework, the convenience of decentralization versus centralization mainly depends on the interaction … regions. To summarize, from a positive viewpoint, decentralization should not be necessarily pursued only in the absence of …

This paper studies the relationship between fiscal decentralization and electoral accountability, by analyzing how … decentralization impacts upon incentive and selection effects, and thus on voter welfare. The effect of fiscal centralization on voter …

decentralization should increase electoral control due to the fact that under centralization the incumbent only needs to please the … derived from bundling the provision of both types of public goods, whereas under decentralization there are potential …