Public Investment Choices by Local and Central Governments (English)

This paper examines the impacts of devolving authority for public resource allocation to local governments in a setting of limited electoral control. Such a setting differs from that assumed by seminal formal models of devolution, but describes many developing countries. This study presents a formal model of this setting and tests it using unique data from a natural experiment in rural Ethiopia whereby half of the country’s regions were decentralized...

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Kosec,Katrina L.;

Mogues,Tewodaj;
Document Date
2020/02/01
Document Type
Journal Article
Report Number
160963
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2021/08/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Public Investment Choices by Local and Central Governments
Keywords
access to drinking water

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Kosec,Katrina L.; Mogues,Tewodaj.

Public Investment Choices by Local and Central Governments (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/352381624530717977

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