While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is … understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization … often struggle with decisions about the essential components of decentralization, including the order of an introduction of …

provision more responsive to users. Ethiopia has undertaken two rounds of decentralization, making first the regional states and … then the district governments responsible for providing key public services. This paper explores whether decentralization …

that rural areas have sizes below this cut-off (Onokerhoraye 1984). Decentralization has become a key issue in development … policy in the last two decades. Decentralization is a process of transitioning from a governance structure in which power is …

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

Economists have theoretically shown that decentralization of governance promotes growth and development. However, this … countries decentralize their governance. This article reviews Sri Lanka's experience of decentralization during the past 15 … relationship of the degree of decentralization with poverty and the per capita income of the country. Findings show that the actual …

influences forest clearing and forest product harvesting behavior in Uganda. We find limited awareness of rules surrounding …

democracy, political decentralization has been thought to stimulate policy experimentation. We reexamine the political economy … social optimum, while decentralization leads to "too little." Three effects of centralization — an "informational externality …