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At least to some extent due to pressure from international donors, many countries have become more fiscally decentralized the underlying premise being that greater decentralization might improve the provision of local public goods and services. We test this proposition by determining whether relatively more decentralized countries fare better when natural disasters strike in terms of its effects on the population. Overall, we find evidence supporting our maintained hypothesis, though the effect appears much more robust in developing countries.
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Escaleras, M., Register, C.A. Fiscal decentralization and natural hazard risks. Public Choice 151, 165–183 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-010-9740-4
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