simple model of the interaction between the federal and state governments in such a scheme of partial decentralization. Our …

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BACKGROUND -- III. DECENTRALIZATION AND OVERALL FISCAL CONSTRAINTS -- IV …

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. A BENCHMARK: PRINCIPLES OF DECENTRALIZATION REFORM -- III. UGANDA …'S DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS: THE INSTITUTIONS -- IV. SPECIFIC OUTCOMES IN SERVICE DELIVERY -- V. FINAL REMARKS -- References. …

Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has … been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less … decentralization, particularly on the revenue side, than both developed countries today and the United States and Europe historically …

response. In this paper, we explore the effect that competition for residents induced by fiscal decentralization has on 'waste … an additional advantage of fiscal decentralization …