One constant refrain in evaluations and reviews of decentralization is that the results are
mixed. But given that decentralization is a complex intervention or phenomenon, what is …

Green development is critical for China's economic transformation. Enhancing green total
factor energy efficiency (hereafter GTFEE) is vital to emission reduction and to win-win …

This article centres on the variety of indexes of decentralization. The first section reviews and
compares a dataset consisting of 25 decentralization indexes according to a series of items …

Most countries around the globe have one or two levels of regional or intermediate
government, yet we have little systematic idea of how much authority they wield, or how this …

Conceptual framework and methodological challenges/Deepa Narayan--Evaluating
empowerment: a framework with cases from Latin America/Patti Petesch, Catalina …

Political decentralization is widely believed to reduce ethnic conflict and secessionism in the
world today. Yet decentralization is more successful in reducing conflict and secessionism in …

This paper explores the causes and consequences of the remarkable rise of the value
added tax (VAT), asking what has shaped its adoption and, in particular, whether it has …

This paper deals with the problems encountered in defining and measuring the degree of
fiscal decentralisation. Drawing on a recent analytical framework of the OECD, different …

Traditional explanations of the origins of regional parties as the products of regionally-based
social cleavages cannot fully account for the variation in regional party strength both within …

This paper investigates the relationship between economic globalization and regional
inequality in a panel of 47 countries over the period 1990–2007, using a measure of …