Administrative Decentralization (Lima & Silveira Neto)

Secession of municipalities and economies of scale: evidence from Brazil by Ricardo Carvalho de A. Lima and Raul da Mota Silveira Neto (5/2017). “In the 1990s, there was a growing process of administrative decentralization that culminated in the creation of 1,016 new municipalities in Brazil (an increase of 24%). The economic efficiency of this process in relation to public expenses, however, has still not been assessed…”Verificar em: