Does Decentralization Increase Government Responsiveness to Local Needs? Evidence from Bolivia

By J. Faguet. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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New Evidence on the Effect of Fiscal Decentralization on the Size and Composition of Government Spending (2006, neutral): “6 Faguet (2004) is to some extent an exception.”
Decentralization and efficiency of local government (2010, neutral): “Some recent empirical studies have shown that decentralization increases governments’ responsiveness in developing countries (Faguet 2004).”
Decentralization and Electoral Accountability: Incentives, Separation, and Voter Welfare (2009, neutral): “For example, nearly all the large Latin American countries have initiated some form of ¯scal decentralization in the last decade e.g. Bolivia (Faguet(2004)), as have Indonesia, the Philippines, and Pakistan, to name just a few.”
Can cultivars from participatory plant breeding improve seed provision to small-scale farmers? (2007, neutral): “They need to be seen in a wider context of policies to maintain livelihoods in areas with widespread poverty and fragile, diverse ecosystems that, in Latin America, increasingly involve local-level governance institutions (Bebbington 1999; Faguet 2004).”
Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance (2012, neutral): “The expectation is that local governments have unique advantages in allocating public resources, such as access to information not available to central authorities (Faguet, 2004).”
How to Make Agricultural Extension Demand-Driven?: The Case of India’s Agricultural Extension Policy (2007, background): “If funding responsibilities are transferred to local governments, extension may no longer be a priority, especially when basic needs, such as water, education, and health, are not being met (Faguet 2004).”
Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia (2019, background): “However, while elite capture exists, the welfare losses it creates appear small: since formal elites and their relatives are only 9 percent richer than non-elites, are at most about 8 percentage points more likely to receive benefits than non-elites, and represent at most”
The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization: A Survey (2015, neutral): “In Bolivia, Faguet (2004) shows that decentralization”
Current Debates on Infrastructure Policy (2007, neutral): “ First, decentralization tends to increase total and subnational spending on infrastructure, and even more so in developing than in industrial countries (Estache and Sinha 1995; Fisman and Gatti 2002; Faguet 2004).”