model to study aid's impact on 'absorption' (increasing import demand) and 'spending' (increased domestic demand) across …

decentralization in the city. We present a critical analysis of the current institutional landscape of the towns, identifying some …

necessarily constrained by the weakness of local tax administration. Tax decentralization and the decentralization of tax …

Congress packages pork-barrel spending in complicated proposals that belie theories of distributive politics. We …-2010 using a within-legislator strategy reveals that House members are less likely to support decentralized spending when they … are co-partisans with presidents, while senators support decentralization regardless of such party ties. When House …

decentralization. In addition there is external pressure coming from IMF and WB who implicitly and explicitly have declared … ‘decentralization’ as their most favoured policy prescription especially for the developing world. …

governance in accordance with the rapidly changing global and local scenario. According to the author, the good governance of the …

Though decentralization for past one and half decade or so has become the most favoured policy priority among the … policy makers yet the countries around the world differ dramatically in the degree of decentralization that is accommodated …. While diversity in degree of decentralization across the world is a fact yet there is no consensus in the empirical …