these laws, and (3) the degree of decentralization of jurisdictions with respect to local public goods. It is suggested that … decentralization, with adverse consequences for economic efficiency. The paper concludes with a brief normative discussion of …

governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

China we have examined how marketization and decentralization has affected the composition of provincial public expenditure … observed that in China with a lower marketization level in 1986-1992, fiscal decentralization had positive effect on …

This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard … decentralizing reforms. The implications of ferences in decentralization for fiscal outcomes and economic growth are discussed. The …, is discussed, in attempting to abstract from the two cases to more general lessons for fiscal decentralization. …

This paper surveys the state of fiscal federalism in India, in the broader context of decentralization. We begin with … services such as water, sanitation, education and health care, and the impacts of decentralization on service quality and the …