This paper considers a class of hierarchical procedures for allocating resources in a dynamic environment, in which resource allocations are computed in real time by an organization's administrative staa. Information about cost parameters ows up and is aggregated by the hierarchy, while allocations ow down and are disaggregated by the hierarchy. The hierarchical structure reeects the decentrali...

Many countries in Africa have embarked on health sector reforms. The design of the reforms differs considerably. A key feature of the reforms is decentralization, of which Uganda and Zambia are implementing two different models. This paper analyses the two models of health sector reform, and their implications for ultimate development goals. In Uganda, the whole government has been decentralize...

the process of proposing solutions to solve the problems of the capital, after undergoing different stages has reached to the law of feasibility study of transmission of the political center of the country and reorganization and decentralization of tehran. the aim of this study is to address article one of this law, and offering reorganization and decentralization pattern. the research method i...

Libman, Alexander—Constitutions, regulations, and taxes: Contradictions of different aspects of decentralization The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from the Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a politically asymmetric country and ...

The article analyses preconditions and stages of devolution in the UK. It is shown, that decentralization public administration UK means central government increasing responsibility local expansion development various forms interaction between state society. In this context, primarily a process transferring power from to lower level. Devolution has become most important event recent decades pol...

Educational policies and household behaviors interact to determine educational outcomes. Much educational literature, including that on decentralization, focuses almost exclusively on school resources and ignores substantial household resources devoted to schooling. The failure to consider how households change resource allocations may lead to important misunderstandings of decentralization eff...

This thesis takes the position that decentralization is a dynamic process in constant transition in Third World countries between centralization and decentralization. The author uses an historic approach to explore the process of decentralization as it affects local governments, particularly historic-cultural influences which have had a negative impact on the development of local government ins...

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. Taking account of the potential simultaneity between terror and decentralization, our results show that expenditure decentralization robustly reduces the number of terror events in a country, while political decentralization h...