This study presents evidence from Indonesia on how the country’s recent periods of economic growth have contributed to … poverty reduction at the regional level, with a particular emphasis on the role of decentralization. Over the past decade … Indonesia has made significant progress in reducing poverty, from 23% of the population in 1999 to less than 12% in 2013 …

Indonesia began a process of rapid government decentralization in 1999 from a formerly strong centralized government … structure. I review the history of decentralization in Indonesia and assess how Indonesia has fared in pursuing a … decentralization policy since 1999. I illustrate how Indonesia meets several criteria of successful decentralization and how it is …

Though decentralization for past one and half decade or so has become the most favoured policy priority among the … policy makers yet the countries around the world differ dramatically in the degree of decentralization that is accommodated …. While diversity in degree of decentralization across the world is a fact yet there is no consensus in the empirical …

This article validates the Regional Authority Index with seven widely used decentralization indices in the literature …

This paper surveys the state of fiscal federalism in India, in the broader context of decentralization. We begin with … services such as water, sanitation, education and health care, and the impacts of decentralization on service quality and the …

presented here seeks to answer two questions: “Is decentralization a suitable tool to appease separatist movements and prevent a … a secession threat can be used by a minority region to gain a higher level of decentralization than the larger part of … reduction or on the improvement of governance, especially where they are not accompanied by (additional) decentralization. – It …

for more fiscal decentralization. Within this subject, this paper has the goal of contributing to the discussion on tax … fiscal decentralization policy in Mexico. …