decentralization in India, summarizes the current fiscal situation of district, block and village panchayats, identifies the main … fiscal decentralization system. Using Kamataka and Kerala as case studies, this report describes the context for rural … more advanced than others in implementing rural fiscal decentralization and are therefore relevant for drawing lessons for …

The study analyzes the efficiency implications of fiscal decentralization using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). It … expenditure decentralization ratio to account for fiscal autonomy on the expenditure side and two measures of fiscal … decentralization to account for financial/fiscal autonomy of the local government units (LGUs) on the income side (i.e., the ratio of …

years. China does not follow the standard growth paradigm of more growth leading to lower IMRs. Fiscal decentralization has …