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

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

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 …

discussion of the rationale for decentralization, the paper describes the main structural and economic developments in China in …

government in China over the past two decades and provides an assessment of the success of previous reforms in meeting their …

The paper assesses the changing nature of the relations between the provinces and the central government in China …