decentralization is justified in the Philippines - it approaches the arrangements as they exist, and explicitly focuses on actions that …This report reviews two facets of decentralization currently engaging policy-makers: 1) the sources of financing under … decentralization, and, 2) cross-cutting processes to strengthen the accountability of resource use. It does not assess whether …

This study analyzes labor market performance in the Philippines from the perspective of workers' welfare. It argues …, and low-paid. Widespread informality means that the poor neither benefit from the minimum wage policy nor from employment …-paid laborers. The reduction of in-work poverty hinges on removing constraints to gainful employment in both supply side (better …

This publication addresses the question of whether political, fiscal, and administrative decentralization improves …-conflict countries. The publication is a collection of eight papers written by authors who were closely involved in the decentralization … local councils. Compared to most other Sub-Saharan African countries that have embarked upon decentralization, Sierra Leone …

"Indonesia's "big bang" decentralization in 2001 shifted much of the responsibility for local economic development from …

"There have been important developments in the decentralization of the government structure in Turkey since the early … economic effects of government decentralization from both developed and developing countries, these effects have not been … recent reform efforts. They then provide an empirical analysis of the effects of decentralization in Turkish provinces using …

"While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is … understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization … often struggle with decisions about the essential components of decentralization, including the order of an introduction of …