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 …

The unfinished agenda in the theory and practice of fiscal decentralization is how fiscal decentralization affects the … 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 …

their poverty goals) and their process of decentralization, the overview of expenditures, the access of the poor to these … list of programs that are essential to the government's development strategy in the context of decentralization. The …