decentralization and the potential trade-offs between decentralization and income redistribution. By contrast, it has generally put … less emphasis on the effects of decentralization on macroeconomic management, although policymakers worldwide increasingly … have to grapple with these effects. This paper examines the constraints that a high degree of decentralization can place on …

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 …

quantitatively how fiscal decentralization affects local and central government debt accumulation and spending. In the model, the … local and central debts are inefficiently high. Consistent with empirical evidence, when fiscal decentralization widens …

Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization-the assignment of … governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness. Unlike previous studies in the decentralization …/governance literature, which focus primarily on expenditure-based measures of decentralization, the results reported in this paper show that …