This paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on overall fiscal performance in the European Union, taking into … account fiscal institutional arrangements. We find that spending decentralization has been associated with sizably better …

In many countries the decentralization of spending responsibilities has outpaced the decentralization of revenue powers …

A weakness of decentralization and overall tax reforms in Latin America is the lack of attention to adequate taxation …

There is a widespread presumption that decentralization improves public service provision. This has led to policy …

Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization-the assignment of … governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness. Unlike previous studies in the decentralization …/governance literature, which focus primarily on expenditure-based measures of decentralization, the results reported in this paper show that …

This paper examines the decentralization process in Colombia, particularly as it relates to reforms embodied in the … incentive structures. The paper provides a summary of the basic features of the decentralization process in Colombia, including …