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...

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Published in:	Journal of Development Economics Vol. 93; no. 2; pp. 264 - 275
Main Author:	Chavis, Larry
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier Science November 2010
Subjects:	Public goods Road costs Competition Resource allocation > Mathematical models Economic competition Community development Indonesia
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost