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 …

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

Does fiscal decentralization improve health and educational outcomes? Does this improvement depend on the quality of … governance? How do fiscal decentralization and governance interact? We answer these questions through an instrumental variable … Tobit analysis of cross-country panel data. We find negative effects of fiscal decentralization on health outcomes, which …

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 …

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 …

This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on fiscal policy performance in a large sample of advanced … stronger fiscal balance; however, fiscal decentralization can lead to more pro-cyclical fiscal policy. Thus, the design and … pace of fiscal decentralization need to be tailored to the specificities of the economy. Countries that have already …

. Decentralization has, however, often occurred on the expenditure and less on the revenue side, creating “vertical fiscal imbalances … when promoting fiscal decentralization. This paper also underlines the role of data covering the general government and its …