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Taxation and social protection under governance decentralisationThis article is currently available for early online view. Governments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs...
Institutional economics Intergovernmental fiscal relations State governmentsWorking Paper
Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralizationGovernments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs. This lack of knowledge opens the door for groups to lobby in order to affect the government’s taxation levels...
Institutional economics Intergovernmental fiscal relations State governmentsWorking Paper
Social and political capital in rural VietnamThis paper exploits five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to investigate issues of social and political capital in rural Vietnam...
Economic development Families Household surveyJournal Article
Vertical Decentralisation and Urban Service Delivery in South Africa: Does Politics Matter?Part of Journal Special Issue Urban Governance and Service Delivery in sub-Saharan Africa
Fiscal policy Intergovernmental fiscal relations State governmentsResearch Brief
Service Delivery in Nairobi and MombasaIn the WIDER Working Paper ‘Decentralized Service Delivery in Nairobi and Mombasa: Policies, politics and inter-governmental relations’ Winnie V...
Economic development Government spending policy Intergovernmental fiscal relationsResearch Brief
Decentralization in South Africa: The Role of PoliticsIn the WIDER Working Paper ‘Vertical Decentralization and Urban Service Delivery in South Africa: Does Politics Matter?’ Robert Cameron looks at the ways in which politics affects decentralization and service delivery in South Africa...
Fiscal policy Intergovernmental fiscal relations State governmentsBlog
From the Editor’s Desk (November 2012)
Tony Addison This month saw the visit of Kaushik Basu, the World Bank’s new Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics, to talk about the global crisis and the impact on emerging economies at a UNU-WIDER seminar...
Agriculture Conflict management Economic developmentWorking Paper
Decentralized Service Delivery in Nairobi and MombasaIn many African countries, decentralization has long been viewed as a means for improving local service delivery...
Economic development Government spending policy Intergovernmental fiscal relationsWorking Paper
Vertical Decentralization and Urban Service Delivery in South Africa: Does Politics Matter?This study examines the role of politics on decentralization and service delivery in South Africa, with a specific focus on Johannesburg and Cape Town...
Fiscal policy Intergovernmental fiscal relations State governments