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 … fiscal space for higher infrastructure spending. -- fiscal reforms ; infrastructure spending ; decentralization …

of government. In developing, transition, and industrial countries alike, the process of decentralization of government … redistributed affects the degree and nature of decentralization generating considerable debate in countries as diverse as Italy and …