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 …

This paper investigates the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and economy-wide disposable income inequality … several indicators of national income inequality and a wide array of fiscal decentralisation indicators. The results indicate … a weak, inequality-reducing relationship between decentralisation and income inequality, as measured by the Gini …

to promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Decentralisation can enable sub-central governments to provide …