Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence …

Starting in 2001 the Government of Indonesia employed the Regional Autonomy Law, providing larger fiscal role to the … province and district governments. However, our understanding of its impacts on development in Indonesia is still limited. This … towards the sector's growth. This poses problem for industrialization at the local level. Decentralization progress in …

The aim of this study is to examine the association of fiscal decentralization in relation to government size in … Indonesia. Literature theory of leviathan model argued that government behavior tends to maximize their revenue and expand their … revenue and giving revenue authorization to sub national government. Panel data of 33 provinces in Indonesia are deployed to …

Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, we study the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on …

-level panel data from Indonesia we establish that ethnic favoritism is common among village governments allocating individual … decentralization and the introduction of local direct elections increase inequalities between ethnic groups in villages. We conclude … decentralization and direct elections can have unintended consequences for ethnic relative deprivation and the efficient allocation of …