The Impact of Recentralization on Public Services: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the Abolition of Elected Councils in Vietnam
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Recentralization; Elected Councils; Household Survey; Vietnam;All these keywords.
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- A1 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics
- H0 - Public Economics - - General
- P0 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - General
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