"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 …

decentralization is associated with improved fiscal performance and better functioning of internal common markets. Fiscal policy … discipline. Fiscal decentralization poses significant challenges for macroeconomic management. These challenges require careful …

This paper takes stock of Madagascar's first 10 years of decentralization. As it happened in many other developing … countries, particularly in Africa, Madagascar's decentralization process has seen reversals, uncertainties and lack of clarity … all along. This explains why Madagascar, despite the experience with decentralization, remains a highly centralized …

of Burundi’s political and macroeconomic context, and reviews the evolution of the decentralization process to better … understand how institutional, political, and bureaucratic dynamics have shaped the historical trajectory of decentralization and … generated the outcomes observed today. Chapter 2 provides a systematic investigation of the status of fiscal decentralization in …