This paper tests for spatial spillover effects of state-level telecommunications infrastructure investment on state output, using panel data for 48 U.S. states from 1970 through 1997. As information and communication technologies support more industrial locational freedom, states may use...

This paper examines the importance of fiscal autonomy in the analysis of decentralization. Using new data published by the OECD (2001 and 2002), it reproduces several indicators and proposes new measures of decentralization that take into consideration subnational governments' autonomy over...

This note presents lessons learned from three ongoing World Bank PforR projects in - Brazil, Indonesia, and Tanzania - which were highlighted in the Primer Conditional Grants in 'Principle, in Practice and in Operations'. It is aimed to complement the theory presented in the primer and it...

Decentralisation offers significant opportunities to improve government accountability by exerting stronger pressures both from below (demand) and above (supply). The literature contains many examples, however, where the potential has not been realised, partly because decentralisation reforms...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. Implementing Fiscal Decentralization: Data Needs and Availability -- 2. Globalization, Localization, and Statistics: Policies toward Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development -- 3. Bulgaria -- 4. Romania -- 5. Slovak Republic...

Universal service, the long time goal of telecommunications regulation, is under new scrutiny by stakeholders. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 eliminated the barriers to competition implemented in the transitional Modified Final Judgment of 1984. The FCC is now setting up a new universal...