There is a widespread presumption that decentralization improves public service provision. This has led to policy …

This paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on overall fiscal performance in the European Union, taking into … account fiscal institutional arrangements. We find that spending decentralization has been associated with sizably better …

In many countries the decentralization of spending responsibilities has outpaced the decentralization of revenue powers …

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 …

There is increasing interest in fiscal decentralization in Peru as a mechanism to generate more involved decision … decentralization process with greater transparency. …

ambitious decentralization program implemented by the authorities since the late 1990s has had mixed results in terms of …