Empirical estimates suggest that fiscal decentralization in government spending is associated with lower government … corruption …

"Indonesia's "big bang" decentralization in 2001 shifted much of the responsibility for local economic development from …

"There have been important developments in the decentralization of the government structure in Turkey since the early … economic effects of government decentralization from both developed and developing countries, these effects have not been … recent reform efforts. They then provide an empirical analysis of the effects of decentralization in Turkish provinces using …

"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 …

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 …

"Empowerment of local governments and citizens is a primary object of decentralization. Using the analytic lens of … less empowering. His primary concern is fiscal decentralization, specifically the association between fiscal determinants …

"Decentralization and increased stakeholder involvement have been major elements of water sector reform as ways to … relating decentralization and stakeholder involvement to improved river basin management, this paper infers several hypotheses … about factors associated with greater or lesser likelihood of success of the decentralization process using data from 83 …

decentralization, based on relationships of accountability between different actors in the delivery chain. Moving from a model of … central provision to that of decentralization to local governments introduces a new relationship of accountability …. Only by examining how these relationships change can we understand why decentralization can, and sometimes cannot, lead to …

"Di Gropello analyzes decentralization reforms in the education sector in Latin America (their status, impact, and …