The purpose of this paper is to assess whether expenditure decentralization has contributed to weakening fiscal … following questions: (1) does the form of spending decentralization affect the general government fiscal balance?; (2) is there … results indicate that current decentralization models may have some shortcomings and efforts to achieve fiscal consolidation …

state deficits and debt rose sharply. While India is among the world's most decentralized economies, greater … 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 …

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 …