public services over the past quarter of a century. There is a renewed and increasing interest in decentralization in Peru as …Peru represents a laboratory for examining the different approaches to the centralized or decentralized delivery of … emphasis on overall fiscal stability. Learning from the lessons of the ongoing decentralization, there is a recognition that …

This paper contributes to the existing literature on the determinants of fiscal decentralization by motivating … theoretically and exploring in depth the empirical relevance that geography has as determinant of fiscal decentralization. The … relationship between decentralization and geography is based on the logic that more geographically diverse countries show greater …

This paper analyses the problem of sub-national revenue mobilization in Peru and proposes several policy reforms to …

government fragmentation and fiscal decentralization for a panel of 23 countries in the 1995-2007 time interval. Taken separately … decentralization measured as fiscal and spending autonomy does seem to reduce corruption. This latter effect is reinforced if fiscal … decentralization is combined with a high degree of government fragmentation at the local level. The results appear robust to different …

” (Rahman and Islam 2002: 154). Decentralization reforms are debated every few years under governments of all hues, various …

The first goal of this paper is to develop a taxonomy of decentralization measures showing their relationship to the … primary theoretical aspects of decentralization and how the different measures are related to each other. The second goal of … dimensions of decentralization into a single indicator inevitably leads to a loss of information and that a preferable approach …

In this paper, we critically review the Cambodian decentralization process to date. The next two sections set the stage … and development of decentralization in Cambodia. The fifth and sixth sections respectively describe and evaluate the state … of decentralization. The penultimate section outlines decisions that need to be made and challenges that will be faced in …

divided in three parts. The first one summarizes the key features of relevance to decentralization under five headings. The … recent attempts to further decentralization. …