This volume presents a preliminary framework designed to help international development partners consider the relevance of political economy issues for their programmatic support to decentralization and local government reform. The intention is neither to advocate decentralization in general or...

The book contains a selection of papers presented at the Conference on Democracy, Market Economy, and Development, whose objective was to examine the extent of which democracy is important to the achievement of sustainable development. While it is widely accepted that economic freedom, as...

Chapter One Overview of the Book -- Chapter Two Economic Diversification to Reduce Natural Resource Dependency in the Literature -- Chapter Three Methodology and Empirical specification -- Chapter Four Data Presentation and Analysis -- Chapter Five: Presentation of Results -- Chapter Six Overall...

This book illustrates the decade-long transformation of the Hungarian sub-national system with a focus on sub-national finance. It shows the rocky path of transition from central command to decentralized local self-governments. Hungary has decentralized and refurbished the state administration,...