No consensus has yet emerged on whether fiscal decentralization facilitates or impedes the growth of the public sector …. One explanation for this ambiguity in the literature is that the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector size … between fiscal decentralization and the ideology of the government may influence the size of the public sector. Thereafter …

The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory … decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a … politically asymmetric country. It finds virtually no correlation between different decentralization aspects; moreover, three …

decentralization. In addition there is external pressure coming from IMF and WB who implicitly and explicitly have declared … ‘decentralization’ as their most favoured policy prescription especially for the developing world. …

Decentralization since early 1990s has become one of the buzzwords of the development paradigms. Among all ingredients … of decentralization, the fiscal component of it has a special significance. Not surprisingly the literature unanimously … among different objectives of each level and resolve tensions between them. Thus, the fiscal decentralization is in vogue …