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The Effects of Participatory Budgeting on Municipal Expenditures and Infant Mortality in Brazil

Sónia Gonçalves

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"The Effects of Participatory Budgeting on Municipal Expenditures and Child Mortality in Brazil" 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

Sónia Gonçalves
Teaching Fellow
Kings College London

Publication Information

Type Network Paper
Program Decentralization
Posted 07/31/13
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