The politics of partial decentralization

Does Decentralization Enhance Service Delivery and Poverty Reduction?

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 102-124

  Devarajan, Shantayanan ^a   Khemani, Stuti ^a   Shah, Shekhar ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

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