Rohini Pande
This paper covers the two main aspects of political decentralization in India, namely: (i) local
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- Working Paper
Publication Results
Tim Besley
These notes on decentralization lay out some of the basic issues and develop a simple
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Justin Lin
This paper explores how fiscal decentralization was an important aspect of China's multi-faceted reform.
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Joseph Stiglitz Pranab K. Bardhan
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Robin Burgess
These notes examine the economic and institutional arguments for decentralization as a means of identifying
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Jean-Paul Faguet
This paper describes a simple, two-stage model of local government which deals with multi-dimensional policy
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Barry Weingast
In order understand the comparative theory of federal performance, the author develops a set of
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Francisco Ferreira
This short note asks where support for decentralization of taxation and spending decisions should come
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Yingyi Qian
This essay argues that appropriate assessment of the role of decentralization in China requires careful
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Mariano Tommasi
These notes focus on the revenue side of fiscal federalism (tax assignments), intergovernmental transfers, and
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- Working Paper
It is widely accepted, not least in the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO),
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- Network Papers
Jan Svejnar
Nandini Gupta
John Ham
While privatization of state-owned enterprises has been one of the most important aspects of the
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- Network Papers