Successful reforms need coherent approaches in which a range of stakeholders are willing to share responsibilities and resources in order to achieve the ultimate outcome of poverty reduction in developing countries. This book provides a framework to access intended outcomes generated by...

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Local Public Finance in China:An Overview -- Local Expenditures -- Chapter 2: Assessing the Assignment of Expenditure Responsibilities -- Chapter 3: Fiscal Decentralization, Infrastructure Financing, and Regional Disparity...

This book addresses a variety of issues relating to intergovernmental finance and the provision and financing of local services including budgeting and financial management, the institutional framework for the conduct of intergovernmental relations, appropriate methods of service delivery in...

Giving a new answer to an old question, this book shows that fiscal decentralization is a method to disclose the preferences of currently living and future generations for local public goods, to limit the size of the government, and to avoid excessive public debt finance

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. Implementing Fiscal Decentralization: Data Needs and Availability -- 2. Globalization, Localization, and Statistics: Policies toward Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development -- 3. Bulgaria -- 4. Romania -- 5. Slovak Republic...

Intro -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- 1. How political institutions, history and experience affect government budgeting processes and ways of achieving ‘value for money’ -- 2. Government budgeting and the quest for value-for-money outcomes in...