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Does commercialization undermine the benefits of decentralization for local services provision? : evidence from Mexico's urban water and sanitation sector

Herrera, Veronica - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 56 (2014), pp. 16-31

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Decentralization in public sector organizations : do organizational autonomy and result control lead to decentralization toward lower hierarchical levels?

Wynen, Jan; Verhoest, Koen; Rübecksen, Kristin - In: Public performance & management review 37 (2013/14) 3, pp. 496-520

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Impact of public governance democratization on land management quality

Bui Quang Tuan; Phi Vinh Tuong; Pham Sy An; Vu Hoang Duong - In: Vietnam's socio-economic development : a social science … 77 (2014), pp. 46-66

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Decentralization and infrastructure in developing countries : reconciling principles and practice

Bahl, Roy W.; Bird, Richard - 2013

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Public finance in Montréal : in search of equity and efficiency

Meloche, Jean-Philippe; Vaillancourt, François - 2013

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The impact of fiscal and political decentralization on local public investments in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir Putra, Bambang Suharnoko … - 2014

We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …

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Stochastic stability in assignment problems

Klaus, Bettina; Newton, Jonathan - 2014

In a dynamic model of assignment problems, small deviations suffice to move between stable outcomes. This result is used to obtain no-selection and almost-no-selection results under the stochastic stability concept for uniform and payoff-dependent errors. There is no-selection of partner or...

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Decentralization, vertical fiscal imbalance, and political selection

Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Turati, Gilberto - 2013

decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of … difference in the tax base, following the decentralization reforms of the '90s. Results strongly support our predictions and are …

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The rise and fall of decentralization in contemporary Uganda

Green, Elliott D. - 2013

There has long been an emphasis on the importance of decentralization in providing better quality public services in … the developing world. In order to assess the effectiveness of decentralization I examine here the case study of Uganda …, which has seen major decentralization of power over the last quarter-century. Initial excitement about Uganda …

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Efficiency of decentralized road investment and pricing in a multi-jurisdictional city with spillovers

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2013

This paper shows that the inefficiency of fiscal decentralization in the presence of spillovers, a main tenet of the … decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation context. In a monocentric city where road (bridge) capacity …

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