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Decentralization and Governance

Jean-Paul Faguet

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"Decentralization and Governance" is featured in a special issue of World Development that examines how decentralization affects governance, in particular how it might increase political competition, improve public accountability, reduce political instability, and impose incentive-compatible limits on government power, but also threaten fiscal sustainability.

About the Author

Jean-Paul Faguet
Professor
London School of Economics

Publication Information

Type Network Paper
Program Decentralization
Posted 07/31/13
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