hierarchical contests and comparing the implications of centralized with decentralized governance. Increasing information available …. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

hierarchical contests and comparing the implications of centralized with decentralized governance. Increasing information available …. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

competitive as possible. In many cases, this is done through state control over metropolitan areas and their governance … arrangements. This article examines the relationship between state control and metropolitan governance capacity based on a … metropolitan governance, as well as different forms of state control. We studied state control by focusing on political and …

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for … in terms of achieving good governance, and to the recipients in terms of what they receive. The leaders of potential … receiving countries prefer that each country obtains the proportion of aid relative to its governance quality. If poverty …

This paper analyses the decentralization of decisionmaking in aid-giving in a theoretical rent-seeking framework. In … this analysis the root donor establishes a necessary criterion for potential recipients: good governance. The potential …