Decentralization Dilemma: Measuring the Degree and Evaluating the Outcomes [PDF]
Though decentralization for past one and half decade or so has become the most favoured policy priority among the policy makers yet the countries around the world differ dramatically in the degree of decentralization that is accommodated. While diversity
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
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Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis [PDF]
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror.
Axel Dreher, Justina A.V. Fischer
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Administrative Decentralization of Environmental Health Programs
, 1960 J. W. R. Norton
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Does Fiscal Decentralization Dampen All Ethnic Conflicts? The heterogeneous Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Local Minorities and Local Majorities [PDF]
Fiscal decentralization is widely proposed as an efficient means to accommodate ethnic violence. Yet while most of the econometric cross-country studies supports this view, case studies offer mixed results. In this paper, it is argued that this is partly
Tranchant, Jean-Pierre
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Fiscal decentralization and development: How crucial is local politics? [PDF]
, 2010 Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local development ...
Pal, S, Roy, J
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Comments on "Decentralization, stabilization, and estimation of large scale linear systems" [PDF]
, 1982 S. Katti
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Decentralization of river basin management : a global analysis [PDF]
Decentralization and increased stakeholder involvement have been major elements of water sector reform as ways to promote sustainable and integrated resource management particularly of river basins.
Blomquist, William +5 more
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Measuring Fiscal Decentralization in the Philippines [PDF]
This paper focuses on the fiscal decentralization in the Philippines after the 1991 Local Government Code. It first examines the intergovernmental fiscal relationship between central and local governments by using fiscal decentralization indicators, and ...
Suzuki, Yurika, Uchimura, Hiroko
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A √N algorithm for mutual exclusion in decentralized systems [PDF]
, 1985 Mamoru Maekawa
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Partial decentralization as a safeguard against favoritism [PDF]
In this paper I investigate the optimal level of decentralization of tasks for theprovision of a local public good. I enrich the well-known trade-off between internalization of spillovers (that favors centralization) and accountability (that favors ...
Darwin Cortés
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