Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan have all carried-out comprehensive reforms of their inter-governmental fiscal systems … setting for fiscal decentralization. This goes a long way in explaining why the fiscal decentralization process in the three … implications for budgetary developments. The objectives of this paper are to discuss key aspects of the ongoing decentralization …

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 …

public services over the past quarter of a century. There is a renewed and increasing interest in decentralization in Peru as … emphasis on overall fiscal stability. Learning from the lessons of the ongoing decentralization, there is a recognition that … suggests that there is a pending work agenda to grasp the benefits of the decentralization process, including the reduction in …

” (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. …

examines to what extent party systems are shaped by fiscal and political decentralization. With the exception of a few special … cases, empirical evidence does not support the existence of a robust relationship between the degree of decentralization and …