Abstract Decentralization of power has brought sweeping changes to governance systems of many developing countries over the past few decades. During 1997-2007 the World Bank has given $22 billion to its client countries to facilitate this process. However, the empirical evidence on the effects of decentralization on welfare outcomes has been both limited and ambiguous. Additionally, empirical c...

March, 2000 AFRICA N John Cohen was a product of the democratic frontier ethos of the American West. A rigorous stickler for accuracy of detail and fidelity to the facts, he was at the same time an unwavering optimist. His writing and teaching was infused with a moral vision––that ordinary men and women are endowed with the innate capacity to solve their common problems, to learn from mistakes ...

Decentralization has dramatically altered governance in developing countries. However, the empirical evidence on its welfare effects has been limited and ambiguous. I argue that this ambiguity is due to a misidentification of different types of decentralization – namely administrative, political and fiscal – and their synergies. In order to test this claim, the paper employs a unique Indonesian...

BACKGROUND In India, the process of decentralization of health services started taking shape in the mid-1990s. Systemic reforms envisaged delegation of administrative and financial responsibilities at district level for management of health-care institutions in 23 states of India in 1999. Subsequently, some of these reforms became part of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) launched in 200...

The global drive towards decentralization has been increasingly justified on the basis that greater transfers of resources to subnational governments are expected to deliver greater efficiency in the provision of public goods and services and greater economic growth. This paper examines whether this is the case, by analysing the relationship between decentralization and economic growth in 21 OE...

There exist many access control models in the literature, and several models are emerging each year. Yet, there is no formal taxonomy to compare the administrative features of these models. We propose a novel formalism to compare access control administration models based on their expressivity in a) administrative decentralization and b) conflict resolution. The contribution is a taxonomy by wh...

Decision-makers and aid agency professionals in a number of transitional and developing countries are increasingly turning to “administrative decentralization” as a strategy for addressing a number of critical governmental needs. Foremost among these are improved governance, increased transparency and accountability, and more effective and efficient production and delivery of public goods and s...

introduction population growth and immigration are major causes of the most social changes in rural areas. accordingly, political change in a country is inevitable. so, this issue of iran’s rural settlements adopted and evolves. the rural habitations with population changes, the intensity of the positive effects of decentralization are receiving. your changes have been noted as being the basis ...

The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations, or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countries they represent. INTRODUCTION Alongside the familiar economic and democratic-electoral reforms that have occurred in African countr...