complemented by country-specific regressions for Brazil and Indonesia on account of these countries. experiences with fiscal …-voice (and trustful of strangers in the case of Brazil) than their counterparts that have not been exposed to decentralisation … decentralisation fosters social capital, measured in terms of interpersonal trust. Empirical evidence based on World Values Survey data …

Mexico has achieved a high degree of decentralisation in public services, but the Mexican fiscal federal system has …<BR>Le Mexique a poussé très loin la décentralisation des services publics, mais le système budgétaire fédéral présente des …

. Different “types of decentralisation” are separately presented before reviewing a generalised approach aiming both at … multitude of meanings attached to the term “decentralisation” and its related terms. However, having assembled terms together …

are: (i) A precise derivation of an optimal degree of decentralisation is not possible because of mixed theoretical … suggestions. The adequate degree of decentralisation has to be detected case-by-case. (ii) Systematic evidence on direct … relationships between economic performance and fiscal decentralisation is ambiguous and scarce. (iii) Comparing the actual and …

so well in economic terms, namely the level of decentralisation and social capital in its broad sense. The idea in the …

Indonesia went through a process of fiscal decentralization in 2001 involving the devolution of several policymaking …

Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in … Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence … of heterogeneity in access to public goods across communities in the period prior to fiscal decentralisation; with …

, decentralisation in Indonesia and the Philippines produced better health outcomes because they reformed healthcare funding. This is key … to successful pro-poor decentralisation.{OECD Development Centre Policy Insights No 18, May 2006] …