Decentralization occupies an important space in debates over public-sector reform in doi moi Vietnam. This paper assesses the changing distribution of roles, responsibilities and resources across levels of government over the past decade. Vietnam is incrementally transfering greater administrative and fiscal responsibilities to the provincial level. In addition, the Communist Party is attemptin...

This paper integrates the distributive politics literature with the literature on decentralization by incorporating inter-regional project externalities into a standard model of distributive policy. A key ...nding is that the degree of uniformity (or “universalism”) of the provision of regional projects is endogenous, and depends on the strength of the externality. The welfare bene...ts of dece...

Research on the impact of decentralisation has generally overlooked fact that economic returns transferring powers and resources to subnational tiers government greatly depend quality devolved government. Scholarly literature also neglected these may be similarly affected by autonomy neighbouring areas their quality. In this paper, we use panel data fixed effects analyses spatial Durbin econome...

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