expenditures. Second it discusses some institutional aspects in the light of these expending trends as the decentralisation process. …

into knowledge that could be directly used by governments. In Brazil, in a context of decentralized and fragmented policies …

The federalism, introduced in Brazil by the 1891 Constitution, was instituted based on the cession of power from … Central Government to subnational government. This specificity of Brazilian federalism has affected the intergovernmental … relations. This paper discusses the role of state debt, a kind of intergovernmental relation, in the Brazilian Federalism since …