decentralization indeed improves health service delivery in the Philippines. There is lack of studies that employ rigorous quantitative …-based/informed policymaking. In particular, the study proposes an analytical framework that examines the effects of fiscal decentralization on …/degree of fiscal decentralization affecting the health sector. Such endeavor is the first ever attempt to measure the extent …

's decentralization policies and also, in informing future policymaking. In particular, it highlights the importance of (i) a well …

Two key recent events pushed forward the country's decentralization agenda. In 2019, the Mandanas-Garcia Supreme Court … decentralization strategy from national government, and (iii) the need for greater coordination and guidance from national agencies …

-critical services such as education, health, and water, with a view to formulating sectoral decentralization policy frameworks that … frameworks; (ii) decentralization can only create an enabling environment for local service delivery if and only if it is … social milieu. -- local service delivery ; decentralization ; triangulation ; institutions ; governance ; Millennium …

framework. -- decentralization ; development ; governance ; institutions ; local service delivery ; triangulation …

excel in their own-source revenue performance and creative use of corporate powers. -- decentralization ; devolution … ; decentralization and service delivery ; institutional design for decentralization ; decentralization capability ; local government unit …

summary of the effects of decentralization is given as a contextual background for the discussion of local finance reforms … issues in local finance reform and gives some recommendations. -- fiscal decentralization ; intergovernmental fiscal …

care to their local governments. This paper explores some key issues related to health decentralization in the Philippines …