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. Our results show that expenditure decentralization robustly reduces the number of terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. The effects of decentralization do not transmit through government e...

Abstract Abim district, located in Uganda’s Karamoja region, is one of the scores new administrative units created under country’s decentralization policy. The establishment district 2006, following decades conflict northern Uganda, was accompanied by changes ethnic identity within local communities Ethur farmers. Based on oral history fieldwork Abim, Meyerson documents these sociopolitical ide...

While decentralization of fiscal responsibilities is one of the main objectives that has emerged in the agenda of national governments and international organizations, there is little empirical evidence of the potential benefits of this intervention. This paper is an attempt to fill, in part, the void of quantitative measurement. Using panel data on infant mortality rates, GDP per capita, and t...

Debates about decentralization raise cultural questions of identity and economic questions of redistribution and efficiency. Therefore the preferences of statewide parties regarding decentralization are related to their positions on the economic and cultural ideological dimensions. A statistical analysis using data from thirty-one countries confirms this: parties on the economic right are more ...

This paper reviews the progress of implementation of health-care decentralization in Thailand since the promulgation of the Decentralization Act 1999, draws lessons learnt and provides recommendations. This review was carried out because of the delay in health-care decentralization, as compared with what was indicated in the Decentralization Action Plan, and to identify the possible causes of d...

The typical post-Bretton-Woods era development approach that puts great emphasis on central government efforts to promote development, has changed dramatically and local governments have now emerged as important players in development policy. Now, the concept of requirements for achieving the development objectives is changing and many countries around the world are now implementing fiscal dece...

The literature and practice of negotiation and auctions, especially in the burgeoning area of electronic commerce, demonstrate that there is a wide and rapidly growing variety of negotiation and auction processes both in use and proposed. We believe that in the future automated online auctions will become a fundamental building block for contract negotiation carried out electronically. To avoid...

We examine the impact of introduction paid maternity leave in Norway 1977 on maternal health medium and long term. Using administrative data combined with survey women around age 40, we find reform improved a range outcomes, including BMI, blood pressure, pain, mental health. The also increased health-promoting behaviors, such as exercise not smoking. effects were larger for first-time low-reso...

Abstract Panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) is applied to obtain thresholds in certain variables classify the regions into regimes (high or low). Data for of Spain over period 1986–2010 are used. In general, results point a positive (negative) relationship between fiscal (administrative) decentralization and economic growth with low public infrastructure stock per efficient worker high h...

Correction for ‘Magnon-drag thermopower in antiferromagnets versus ferromagnets’ by Md. Mobarak Hossain Polash et al., J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 4049–4057, DOI: 10.1039/C9TC06330G.