governance. This paper examines India's metropolitan governance, its functioning under the decentralisation, the varied … or urban local bodies in India. The amendment act also pave ways for institutionalisation of metropolitan governance by … divulges the mechanisms of establishing metropolitan governance and decentralisation in India. In the process, it showcases the …

administrative decentralization: how independently can the metropolitan government make decisions and perform its tasks? The … conclusion is that the different dimensions of decentralization are connected to capacity, but not straightforwardly. This study …

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan … counties. -- Fiscal decentralization ; metropolitan ; nonmetropolitan ; population ; employment ; income ; spatial econometrics …