Decentralizing development: Allocating public goods via competition.
Decentralizing the allocation of public goods by giving funds directly to communities takes advantage of local information concerning needs, but leaves funds open to misuse or capture by local elites. A large scale development project in Indonesia attempts to overcome this downside of decentralized...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Economics Vol. 93; no. 2; pp. 264 - 275 |
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Elsevier Science
November 2010
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