Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective

By Zuzana Brixiová. 2008

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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Decentralized governance and environmental change: Local institutional moderation of deforestation in Bolivia (2007, background): “…structure under President Journal of Policy Analysis and Management DOI: 10.1002/pam Published on behalf of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management 1 See Bardhan (2002), Bardhan and Mookherjee (2005a), and Bardhan and Mookherjee (2005b) for a comprehensive summary of this debate.”
Impact of Corporate Environmental Responsibility on Operating Income: Moderating Role of Regional Disparities in China (2016, neutral): “Along with fiscal decentralization in China, local officials have gained broad administrative, economic, and resource autonomy (Bardhan and Mookherjee 2006) since the 1980s, which have contributed to their power to allocate and control resources, including land, finances, subsidies, administrative a”
Pro-poor targeting and accountability of local governments in West Bengal (2006, background): “As Foster and Rosenzweig (2001) argue, road projects are more employment-intensive than irrigation projects, so the poor and non-poor may have conflicting preferences between road and irrigation projects if irrigation projects raise the profitability of medium or large farms more than do road…”
Target Setting in Tournaments: Theory and Evidence from China (2018, background): “Chinese local officials take leading positions in promoting the local economy (Qian and Weingast, 1997; Blanchard and Shleifer, 2001; Bardhan and Mookherjee, 2006; Zhou, 2010; Xu, 2011).”
Racing to the Bottom or to the Top? Decentralization, Revenue Pressures, and Governance Reform in China (2017, neutral): “In newly decentralized systems, weak local governments risk becoming captured by powerful local interests, leading to corruption and favoritism instead of greater local accountability (Bardhan and Mookherjee 2006; Faguet 2014, 6; Mattingly, 2016).”
Subnational Taxation in Developing Countries: A Review of the Literature (2011, background): “…for subnational governments to be autonomous in any 54 This point is underlined by many of the case studies of fiscal decentralization found in e.g. Bardhan and Mookherjee (2006), Bird, Ebel and Wallich (1995), Bird and Vaillancourt (1998), Bird and Ebel (2007), Brautigam, Fjeldstad, and Moore…”
The Local Impact of Mining on Poverty and Inequality: Evidence from the Commodity Boom in Peru (2016, background): “It calls into question the impact of the current revenue sharing design, in particular in the absence of strong monitoring and capacity building for subnational governments (Bardhan and Mookherjee, 2006; Loayza, Rigolini and Calvo-Gonzalez, 2014).”