We explore the effects of decentralization on education and health in Ethiopia using an original database covering all … the 1970s-80s were followed by federalization, decentralization, rapid growth and dramatic improvements in human … development. Did decentralization contribute to these successes? We use time series and panel data analyses to show that …

data, we study the effects of decentralization and ethnic divisions on the provision of public amenities associated with …

A central claim in favor of decentralization is that it will improve access to public services, but few studies examine … this question empirically. This paper explores the effects of decentralization on access to health and education in … decentralization improved enrollment rates in public schools and access of the poor to public health services. In both sectors …

governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

service delivery functions, delegation of financial powers, decentralization of authority, and deconcentration of executive … was incomplete due to a number of factors, among those incomplete fiscal decentralization, limited targeting of backward …

We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …