China’s regions have been experiencing impressive growth over the past decades, but their potentials could be better … at making up for the slow progress over the past decade or so. There are signs that these efforts are helping China … Paper relates to the 2019 OECD Economic Survey of China (http://www.oecd.org/economy/china-economic-snapshot/). …

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether expenditure decentralization has contributed to weakening fiscal … following questions: (1) does the form of spending decentralization affect the general government fiscal balance?; (2) is there … results indicate that current decentralization models may have some shortcomings and efforts to achieve fiscal consolidation …

We empirically analyze the determinants of the fiscal decentralization in the European Union. Our approach consists on … on the fiscal decentralization by quantiles. Specifically, while GDP per capita or corruption are not significant in a … decentralization. And other variables as population, density or inequality do not have neither the same impact among quantiles …