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Jean-Paul Faguet

Jean-Paul Faguet

Associate and Professor of the Political Economy of Development, Department of International Development

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j.p.faguet@lse.ac.uk
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IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Constructive Extraction? - Encomienda, the Colonial State, and Development in Colombia

17 March 2022

Jean-Paul Faguet (LSE)

The Spanish encomienda, a colonial forced-labor institution that lasted three centuries, killed many indigenous people and caused others to flee into nomadism. And yet we show that Colombian municipalities with encomien... Read more...
Development Discussion Papers
Decentralization of Health and Education in Developing Countries: A Quality-Adjusted Review of the Empirical Literature

01 July 2012

Anila Channa and Jean-Paul Faguet

We review empirical evidence on the ability of decentralization to enhance preference matching and technical efficiency in the provision of health and education in developing countries. Many influential surveys have foun... Read more...
Development Discussion Papers
DECENTRALIZATION AND GOVERNANCE

01 June 2011

Jean-Paul Faguet

The most important theoretical argument concerning decentralization is that it can improve governance by making government more accountable and responsive to the governed. Improving governance is also central to the moti... Read more...
Development Economics Papers
Decentralization's Effects on Educational Outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia

01 March 2006

Jean-Paul Faguet and Fabio Sanchez

The effects of decentralization on public sector outputs is much debated but little agreed upon. This paper compares the remarkable case of Bolivia with the more complex case of Colombia to explore decentralization?s eff... Read more...
Political Economy and Public Policy Papers
GOVERNANCE FROM BELOW A Theory of Local Government With Two Empirical Tests

01 August 2005

Jean-Paul Faguet

I examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics that it unleashes. The national effects of decentralization are simply the sum of its local-level effects. Hence to understand decentralization we must fi... Read more...
Development Economics Papers
Why So Much Centralization? A Model of Primitive Centripetal Accumulation

01 June 2004

Jean-Paul Faguet

With strong conceptual arguments in its favor, decentralization is a popular and growing policy trend across the world. And yet dozens of empirical studies have failed to find convincing evidence that past reforms have w... Read more...