During the eighties and nineties, Peruvians lived through what they call the "Era of Terrorism", or "la Época del Terrorismo" in the original Spanish. Throughout these years, the Peruvian Government battled against the "Shining Path", a bloody and violent Maoist terrorist organization. The "Era...

In the past three decades, emerging countries have gone through extensive decentralization reforms. Yet, there are no studies assessing quantitatively the relative importance of various factors known to affect the success of decentralization. This paper builds on a comprehensive dataset the...