"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 … management problems or with rent seeking behavior. Experiences of federal countries indicate significant learning and adaptation …

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 …

decentralization is yet to be followed through with efficient implementation. The Government of Iraq and the World Bank will like to … assess the current status of decentralization and its implications for improving service delivery at the Governorate level …. The objective of the assessment is to take stock of the current state of decentralization in Iraq with a view to …

The objective of this decentralization study is to provide analysis and policy advice to the new Malagasy government on … how to proceed with the decentralization strategy it inherited from the previous government. The end of the post … exiting achievements. The paper specifically aims to (i) analyze the institutional and fiscal context of decentralization and …