decentralization is associated with improved fiscal performance and better functioning of internal common markets. Fiscal policy … discipline. Fiscal decentralization poses significant challenges for macroeconomic management. These challenges require careful …

important to achieve in development objectives is changing as fiscal decentralization reforms are being pursued by many … countries around the world. In this context, a number of studies have attempted to quantify the impact of decentralization by … decentralization is surprisingly difficult to measure. Nearly all cases examining the relationship between decentralization and …

gains and the inequality costs of trade liberalization are quantified and the trade-offs between them are assessed using an … Atkinson social welfare index. The analysis finds average income gains from import tariff liberalization in 45 countries and …