multilateral aid organizations trying to harmonize aid at the country level. Looking at foreign support for the decentralization …. Decisions about governance and decentralization are necessarily contentious and political. In the case where donors succeed in …

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we … decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that fiscal decentralization negatively impacts aid effectiveness, while measures of … political decentralization have no significant effect or even a positive one. This result is robust for grants and overall ODA …