This paper reviews the theoretical and practical issues surrounding the decentralization of responsibility for the provision of infrastructure to local governments in low income countries. The focus is on structural rather than management issues. There is plenty of evidence that following the...

This paper is about revenue mobilization and tax structure changes in developing countries since the 1970s, the factors underlying this pattern, and what this history suggests for the future. Several distinguished students of taxation have studied this set of questions for different periods of...

India will face great problems in finding a way to finance public services in its large cities in the next two decades. Backlogs in service levels and infrastructure are already great, and migration to urban areas will put even more pressure on state and local government budgets. Metropolitan...