This paper takes stock of Madagascar's first 10 years of decentralization. As it happened in many other developing … countries, particularly in Africa, Madagascar's decentralization process has seen reversals, uncertainties and lack of clarity … all along. This explains why Madagascar, despite the experience with decentralization, remains a highly centralized …

influencing Madagascar's decentralization process, and which will continue to do so in the future. Chapter 2 provides the …, chapter 3 analyzes structural constraints to fiscal decentralization in Madagascar, and in particular the dominance of revenue … part of the chapter evaluates Madagascar's intergovernmental transfers, which represent the most important source of local …

universal plague of poverty reduction in developing economies. Focusing on developing economies especially Ghana, and also … decentralization and its effects on poverty reduction from the optimist and pessimist views. The paper affirmed that fiscal … decentralization has the potential for poverty reduction when it is characterized by greater financial autonomy of the local units with …

This paper contributes to providing insights into the impact of decentralisation on poverty. It starts out with an … overview of which role decentralisation plays in strategies and policies for poverty eradication and derives economic and …. It shows that decentralisation cannot only influence poverty by assigning expenditure responsibility to lower levels of …

Fiscal federalism theorists have long been intrigued by the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty … provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty. It focuses on how the function … of institutional quality can explain the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty in 53 developing …