Historical Overview on Decentralization and local Government of Albania

Decentralization and Local Government Performance

This paper is taken from a study financed by a grant from the World Bank Research Committee. The full report should be available from mid-1998.

Decentralization and Local Government in Bolivia: an Overview from the Bottom Up

Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralization on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the remarkable case of Bolivia to explore decentralization’s effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize econometric results on the effects of decentralization nationally, and then turn to qualitative research – the focus of ...

Advantages & Disadvantages of Local Government Decentralization a Presentation to the Caribbean Conference on Local Government & Decentralization at the Ocean View International Hotel

Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size

This paper explores the link between fiscal decentralization and government size in Latin America. While most related work attempts to test Brennan and Buchannan's "Liviathan" hypothesis, here the emphasis is placed on a different channel: the potential for decentralization to aggravate the common pool problem. In addition to the degree of expenditure decentralization, we consider the importanc...

The impact of functional decentralization and externalization on local government transparency

Available online 1 April 2014