. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

the civil war in the early 1990s, the decentralization process began in Mozambique. Different research developed in recent … years shows that, as is the case in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the impact of the decentralization reforms on the … explained? Based on three important reforms in the decentralization process in Mozambique, namely the '7 million …

In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …

investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using … study. The results with regard to our two indicators of fiscal decentralization indicate that fiscal autonomy proxied by …

Indonesia went through a process of fiscal decentralization in 2001 involving the devolution of several policymaking … dataset of local governments for 1996 and 2004-05 to estimate the effect of the decentralization of minimum-wage setting in …