Decentralization and Criminal Gangs in El Salvador: Impacts on Municipal Finances and Local Economic Development.

Recent literature has argued that decentralization can create new forms of leverage for criminal gangs, increasing their territorial presence and levels of violence. In this article we reverse the causal arrow and analyze how gangs affect the performance of decentralized institutions. We study the c...

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Publicado en:Journal of Development Studies Vol. 60; no. 9; pp. 1372 - 1394
Autores principales: Eaton, Kent, Huanqui, Silvana, Larios, Jose
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2024
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