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We consider a country whose government provides a bundle of goods and services through a multi-tier administrative organization. We compare the optimal architectures of public governance (i.e. the division of the state into several tiers, the distribution of services among them, their number of...
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Present work is an attempt to explore intersperse of fiscal decentralization and public investment in Pakistan. The … struggling to adopt the decentralization process like Pakistan. Finally, the study suggested that a clear mandate of fiscal … responsibilities at central and provincial level is also needed to improve the benefits of fiscal decentralization in Pakistan. …
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We develop a model of policy experimentation in federal systems in which heterogeneous districts choose both whether to experiment and the policies to experiment with. The prospect of informational spillovers implies that in the fi rst best the districts converge in their policy choice....
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Can decentralization of firms be successful in an environment with weak institutions? Decentralization can do a great …-making and enhancing motivation of employees. However, decentralization is associated with a substantial increase in agency risk … real decentralization for firms that decentralize decision-making to competitively hired professionals and cautious …
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A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...
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decentralization indeed improves health service delivery in the Philippines. There is lack of studies that employ rigorous quantitative …-based/informed policymaking. In particular, the study proposes an analytical framework that examines the effects of fiscal decentralization on …/degree of fiscal decentralization affecting the health sector. Such endeavor is the first ever attempt to measure the extent …
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