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 …

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 first goal of this paper is to develop a taxonomy of decentralization measures showing their relationship to the … primary theoretical aspects of decentralization and how the different measures are related to each other. The second goal of … dimensions of decentralization into a single indicator inevitably leads to a loss of information and that a preferable approach …

decentralization. Political drives towards decentralization and re-centralization have alternated for more than thirty years. Today … decentralization in Lao PDR is the absence of a strong central government with the capacity to efficiently collect revenues and be able … before decentralization reform can go forward. …