What we talk about when we talk about decentralization? Insights from post-revolution Tunisia
L’Année du Maghreb, 2017 This article explores the language of decentralization policies in post-revolution Tunisia. It argues that international financial institutions mobilize a particular language about decentralization to create new clients and reinvent themselves in a ...
Lana Salman
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Fiscal Decentralization and the Efficiency of Public Service Delivery
OECD Fiscal Federalism Studies, 2015 This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It uses a stochastic frontier method to estimate time-varying efficiency coefficients and analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization on those ...
M. Sow, I. Razafimahefa
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BRICS Law Journal, 2017 In this article the decentralization process and decentralization method are reviewed. Decentralization is the process of redistributing or dispersing functions, powers, people or things away from a central location or authority.
D. Bunikowski, K. Ivanova
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Decentralization and Development in Contemporary Uganda
Decentralization, Democracy, and Development in Africa, 2015 There has long been an emphasis on the importance of decentralization in providing better quality public services in the developing world. In order to assess the effectiveness of decentralization I examine here the case study of Uganda, which has seen ...
E. Green
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Decentralization and good governance: The case of Indonesia [PDF]
Indonesia began a process of rapid government decentralization in 1999 from a formerly strong centralized government structure. I review the history of decentralization in Indonesia and assess how Indonesia has fared in pursuing a decentralization policy
Green, Keith
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Discussion: “Decentralized Peak-Shaving—Its Economic Significance to Electric Utilities” (Bary, Constantine W., 1961, ASME J. Eng. Power, 83, pp. 119–125) [PDF]
, 1961 W. W. Brown
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The Poland’s Experience in Fiscal Decentralization and Prospects for its Use in Ukraine [PDF]
Bìznes Inform, 2017 The article is aimed at defining theoretical and methodological bases of development of local finances, analyzing decentralization of power, which is the purpose of redistribution of powers between local self-government bodies and the State authorities ...
Sarnetska Yana А.
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Decentralization and Foreign Aid Effectiveness: Do Aid Modality and Federal Design Matter in Poverty Alleviation? [PDF]
This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal ...
Christian Lessmann, Gunther Markwardt
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Decentralization And Service Delivery [PDF]
, 2005 Dissatisfied with centralized approaches to delivering local public services, a large number of countries are decentralizing responsibility for these services to lower-level, locally elected governments. The results have been mixed. The paper provides a framework for evaluating the benefits and costs, in terms of service delivery, of different ...
Junaid Ahmad +3 more
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Decentralization: Panacea or Pandora’s Box? Fiscal Perversity in Mexico. [PDF]
Advocacy for decentralization has grown in Mexico at a rapid pace during the last decade. The gains of decentralization, however, are rather unclear and many times the assumptions and the outcomes of the process depart from the standard theory of fiscal ...
Roberto Guerrero Compeán
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