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We can enhance development by making it easier for people to “vote with their feet” between jurisdictions. Few, if any, policy reforms can achieve such enormous increases in economic growth and opportunity. Foot voting is, in several crucial respects, a better mechanism of political...
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This study examines long run and causal relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic development in … causality test showed a unidirectional causality run from economic development to fiscal decentralization i.e. economic … development granger causes fiscal decentralization (only sub-national revenue decentralization ratio) in Nigeria. By implication …
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In this article, updated approach to assess the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic development is offered …. The relationship between the proper level of fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 27 advanced and emerging … expenditures decentralization was more essential than revenue decentralization. The vast majority of the counties from Central and …
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of social identification and dense network ties alter local elite behavior under decentralization. These attributes fall …
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Grounded in empirically-based country case studies, this new study provides a sober assessment of what decentralisation can achieve. The current momentum for decentralisation of government in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world is unparalleled, but are the benefits claimed by its...
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in the country. This book is a retrospective of the decentralization reform process in Sierra Leone from 2003-07. During … decentralization in general and its desirability and viability in post-conflict countries. …
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Describes in a game-theoretical approach how the development success story Vietnam managed to keep rent seeking in check sufficiently to attract record numbers of foreign investors and exhibit strong economic growth in the early stages of its economic reforms. It concludes that pluralistic...
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