This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard … decentralizing reforms. The implications of ferences in decentralization for fiscal outcomes and economic growth are discussed. The …, is discussed, in attempting to abstract from the two cases to more general lessons for fiscal decentralization. …

This paper surveys the state of fiscal federalism in India, in the broader context of decentralization. We begin with … services such as water, sanitation, education and health care, and the impacts of decentralization on service quality and the …

elderly, using panel data on Swedish municipalities over 1996-2005. The high degree of decentralization in the organization of …

and structural characteristics affected local schooling resources as decentralization took place. We use municipal data … for the period 1989–95 which covers the key reform years without confounding decentralization with institutional changes … after 1995. The main arguments against decentralization are not supported by our findings. First, school spending as well as …

capital. I find no robust evidence to corroborate the theoretically predicted benefits of decentralization. …

school resources differently as decentralization took place. Using municipal data the paper studies how per pupil spending … decentralization. As nothing much has happened with per pupil spending, the teacher-pupil ratio has become more evenly distributed …