appear to benefit. -- Decentralization ; Regional Disparity ; Inequality ; Fiscal Federalism ; Panel Data Evidence …The advantages and disadvantages of public sector decentralization are widely discussed in economics and political … science. Some authors argue that decentralization leads to an optimal provision of public services and promotes economic …

redistributional consequences should be taken into account. -- regional inequality ; decentralization ; panel data …This paper analyzes the impact of political and fiscal decentralization on regional inequalities using a unique data … set which covers 56 countries at different stages of economic develop-ment. Cross-section and panel data estimations show …

specifications of fiscal decentralization and alternate estimation methods accounting for endogeneity. From the policy perspective … between fiscal decentralization and regional income disparities. Fiscal decentralization may affect regional disparities via … institutions, in the form of anti-corruption efforts by the states, interact with fiscal decentralization in impacting divergence …

The proponents of decentralization argue that it improves economic growth by increasing government efficiency and … accountability. However, the critics argue that decentralization increases regional inequality by increasing the differences in … impact of decentralization on regional convergence using first and second administrative regions data from a global sample of …

-specific features, we extend the fixed effects spatial panel data model by introducing time-varying spatial dependence. For estimation …

This paper aims at investigating empirically the impact of fiscal decentralization reforms on inequality in well … size of the tax base across Regions, we find that fiscal decentralization processes that attribute a greater tax power to … into account the specific features of the context where the decentralization of power is implemented …

Recent theories on fiscal decentralization support the view that sub-national governments who finance a larger share of …-experimental evidence on the impact of fiscal decentralization on health disparities between- and within-regions. Our findings, robust to a … number of robustness checks, support the view that fiscal decentralization does not impact on between-regional inequalities …