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Political Selection and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India

Besley, Timothy J.; Pande, Rohini; Rao, Vijayendra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper uses household data from India to examine the economic and social status of village politicians, and how individual and village characteristics affect politician behaviour while in office. Education increases the chances of selection to public office and reduces the odds that a...

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Decentralization, Democracy and Allocation of Poverty Alleviation Programs in Rural India

Sato, Takahiro; Imai, Katsushi S. - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2010

, decentralization did not necessarily contribute to the improvement of the welfare of the socially disadvantaged groups. …

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Corruption, decentralization and yardstick competition

Dincer, Oguzhan; Ellis, Christopher; Waddell, Glen - In: Economics of Governance 11 (2010) 3, pp. 269-294

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Elasticities of Regional and Local Administrations Expenditures - the Portuguese case

Mourão, Paulo Reis - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2005

This work analyses the evolution of real public expenditures of local and regional administrations (LRA), in Portugsl, in the period after the Second World War. It also aims to estimate the elasticities associated to determinants, which explain the found growth. As most relevant results, it is...

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"Que critérios redistributivos na Lei das Finanças Locais?"

Mourão, Paulo Reis - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2005

This work aims the set of redistributive policies (Factor endowments, Utilitarianism or Rawlsians) that is more significant in the Portugues Law of Local Finances. For this purpose, it starts from a model, which tries to relate the partition of a budget (that is distributed by decentralised...

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Improving Local Service Delivery for the MDGs in Asia: the Case of the Philippines

Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), …; … - 2009

-critical services such as education, health, and water, with a view to formulating sectoral decentralization policy frameworks that … frameworks; (ii) decentralization can only create an enabling environment for local service delivery if and only if it is …

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Decentralization and budgeting: the Uganda health sector experience

Awio, Godwin; Northcott, Deryl - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 14 (2001) 1, pp. 75-88

from a study of the impact of decentralization on Ugandan health sector budgeting. A questionnaire was used to seek the … expert opinion of key participants in health sector budgeting regarding the affects of decentralization on budgetary … participation and the use of budgets for planning and control. The findings suggest that, while decentralization cannot be thought …

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Managed competition and user satisfaction ‐ The case of Spanish work accident mutuals

Suárez, Eugenia; Ventura, Juan - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 14 (2001) 2, pp. 149-164

Analyzes one of the three options of insurance against workplace accidents that Spanish companies can choose from: work accident and occupational disease mutual insurance companies. Although the taking out of insurance cover is obligatory, the choice is totally voluntary. The fact that these...

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Public management in an age of complexity: regional economic development in Canada

Conteh, Charles - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 25 (2012) 6/7, pp. 464-472

democracies in the context of a globally integrated economy on the one hand and institutional decentralization on the other. The …

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From public administration to public sector management

Ackroyd, Stephen - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 8 (1995) 2, pp. 19-32

Offers a general historical analysis of the development of public service provision in Britain. First discusses the slow emergence of industrialism in Britain, then discusses the development of social services in this context. Suggests that there are three significant stages in development:...

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