on fiscal decentralization suggesting that redistribution is most effectively carried out at sub-central levels of … that the decentralization of government expenditure can help achieve a more equal distribution of income. However, several … conditions need to be fulfilled: i) the government sector needs to be sufficiently large, ii) decentralization should be …

on fiscal decentralization suggesting that redistribution is most effectively carried out at sub-central levels of … that the decentralization of government expenditure can help achieve a more equal distribution of income. However, several … conditions need to be fulfilled: i) the government sector needs to be sufficiently large, ii) decentralization should be …

decentralization systems by examining the sequencing and economic principles underlying revenue and expenditure assignments, the use of …

liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances …Several transition economies have undertaken fiscal decentralization reforms over the past two decades along with …

decentralization is not the root cause of this situation. Panel estimation techniques find evidence that the trend rise in deficits …

decentralization systems by examining the sequencing and economic principles underlying revenue and expenditure assignments, the use of …

This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It uses a … stochastic frontier method to estimate time-varying efficiency coefficients and analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization on … those efficiency coefficients. The findings indicate that fiscal decentralization can improve the efficiency of public …

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 …