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Endowments, Location or Luck? Evaluating the Determinants of Sub-National Growth in Decentralized Indonesia
Neil McCulloch
Indonesia's "big bang" decentralization in 2001 shifted much of the responsibility for local economic development to now more than 400 district governments. But the performance of these districts has varied widely. This paper attempts to understand the determinants of sub-national (district) growth in Indonesia and map how these determinants have changed since prior to the crisis.