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Improving the education and health of the poor: decentralization and policy reform in Colombia
(CAF, 2009)
A central claim in favor of decentralization is that it will improve access to public services, but few studies examine this question empirically. This paper, the policyoriented companion to Faguet and Sánchez (2009), ...
Decentralization and Access to Social Services in Colombia
(CAF, 2009)
A central claim in favor of decentralization is that it will improve access to public services, but few studies examine this question empirically. This paper explores the effects of decentralization to access to health and ...
On the emergence and significance of local economic development strategies
(CAF, 2009)
This paper examines to what extent local and regional economic development strategies (LED) are becoming a necessary and viable complement to traditional development strategies in a world that has been radically changed ...
Local economic development. Some cities develop more than others: specialization, human capital and institutions
(CAF, 2009)
Why does a certain metropolitan area grow more than another? The answer to this question has evaded much of the considerable body of scholarship on the topic. One problem may be that some of the frameworks that drive ...
Inter-jurisdictional coordination in the management of natural resources: evidence from water basin committees in Brazil
(CAF, 2009)
Decentralized management of public goods creates the potential for spillovers across jurisdictions. These spillovers may be particularly large in the case of river management where the river has little value to upstream ...
Contracting the Road to Development: Early Impacts of a Rural Roads Program
(CAF, 2009)
We studied here the early impacts of the Peruvian rural roads program (RRP) that is characterized by the contracting of private local firms for the rehabilitation and maintenance of rural roads with local supervision by ...
The impact of financial repression on interest rate spreads in Venezuela
(CAF, 2009)
This paper empirically examines the effect of financial repression on interest rates spreads in Venezuela. In order to have a measure of financial repression, we built an index that captures the opportunity cost of regulatory ...
Trade liberalization, economic integration and regional disparities
(CAF, 2009)
What is the impact of trade liberalization and economic integration on the geographical distribution of economic activities? To address this question the present paper proposes a conceptual framework based on recent ...
Subsidios al consumo de los servicios públicos: reflexiones a partir del caso colombiano
(CAF, 2008)
Este artículo presenta una evaluación del esquema de subsidios cruzados a las tarifas de servicios públicos vigentes en Colombia, basada en el análisis de encuestas de hogares, y estudia las propiedades de esquemas ...
El tamaño importa: la estructura vertical de gobierno y la gestión del gasto público local
(CAF, 2008)
Una gran cantidad de países alrededor del mundo presentan estructuras verticales de gobierno percibidas como ineficientes debido a un alto nivel de fragmentación jurisdiccional. La respuesta común a este diagnostico ha ...