Well-designed decentralization can deepen democracy and strengthen the state in five key ways. Decentralizing below the … of authority" critique is mistaken; decentralization transforms the state from a simpler, brittler command structure to …

While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is … understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization … often struggle with decisions about the essential components of decentralization, including the order of an introduction of …

The paper provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of fiscal decentralization within Russian regions in 1994 … of the determinants of decentralization that points to the link between decentralization and the structure of regional … government revenue: access to windfall revenues leads to a more centralized governance structure. The degree of decentralization …

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 …

quantitatively how fiscal decentralization affects local and central government debt accumulation and spending. In the model, the … local and central debts are inefficiently high. Consistent with empirical evidence, when fiscal decentralization widens …

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 …

This paper examines the importance of fiscal autonomy in the analysis of decentralization. Using new data published by … the OECD (2001 and 2002), it reproduces several indicators and proposes new measures of decentralization that take into … decentralization and economic growth, and Oates (1985), on decentralization and public sector size. Some evidence suggests that fiscal …