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When Does decentralization deliver? The Dilemma of Design

Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Decentralization since early 1990s has become one of the buzzwords of the development paradigms. Among all ingredients … of decentralization, the fiscal component of it has a special significance. Not surprisingly the literature unanimously … among different objectives of each level and resolve tensions between them. Thus, the fiscal decentralization is in vogue …

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Does corruption affect health outcomes in the Philippines?

Azfar, Omar; Gurgur, Tugrul - In: Economics of Governance 9 (2008) 3, pp. 197-244

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The political economy of public spending on education, inequality, and growth

Gradstein, Mark - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Public provision of education has often been perceived as universal and egalitarian, but in reality it is not. Political pressure typically results in incidence bias in favor of the rich. The author argues that the bias in political influence resulting from extreme income inequalities is...

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Total strangers or soul mates? - antidumping and competition policies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Guash, J. Luis; Rajapatirana, Sarath - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1998

As a result of trade reforms in the 1980s and 1990s Latin American and Caribbean countries became more open than at any time since World War II. However, these countries have recently begun to use antidumping measures as the new protection weapon of choice, as other barriers to trade have been...

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Labor market integration in the presence of social capital

Schiff, Maurice - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

Labor market integration is typically assumed to improve welfare in the absence of distortions, because it allows labor to move to where returns are highest. The author examines this result in a simple general equilibrium model in the presence of a common property resource: social capital....

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Price caps, efficiency payoffs, and infrastructure contract renegotiation in Latin America

Estache, Antonio; Guasch, Jose-Luis; Trujillo, Lourdes - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Twenty years ago, as the United Kingdom was getting ready to launch the privatization of its public services, Professor Littlechild developed and operationalized the concept of price caps as a regulatory regime to control for residual monopoly conditions in those services. Ten years later, Latin...

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Infrastructure bottlenecks, private provision, and industrial productivity : a study of Indonesian and Thai cities

Anas, Alex; Lee, Kyu Sik; Murray, Michael - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996

This research project followed an earlier similar project on Nigeria, applying the same methods. A sample of manufacturers was surveyed to document their responses to infrastructure deficiencies in electricity, water, transport, telecommunications, and waste disposal. They found the...

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Direct support to private firms - evidence on effectiveness

Batra, Geeta; Mahmood, Syed - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Governments use a variety of instruments to provide direct support to private enterprises. These include the provision of finance (subsidized and/or directed credit) and business development services (management and marketing advice to small businesses, agricultural extension services, support...

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To serve the community or oneself - the public servant's dilemma

Barr, Abigail; Lindelow, Magnus; Serneels, Pieter - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

Embezzlement of resources is hampering public service delivery throughout the developing world. Research on this issue is hindered by problems of measurement. To overcome these problems, the authors use an economic experiment to investigate the determinants of corrupt behavior. They focus on...

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Information and modeling issues in designing water and sanitation subsidy schemes

Gomez-Lobo, Andres; Foster, Vivien; Halpern, Jonathan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

In designing a rational scheme for subsidizing water services, it is important to support the choice of design parameters with empirical analysis that stimulates the impact of subsidy options on the target population. Otherwise, there is little guarantee that the subsidy program will meet its...

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