before decentralization was implemented, even when looking within different local development ranges. Based on the analysis …

State decentralization is often promoted to improve public service delivery. However, its effects on forest … conservation are ambiguous. Decentralization might not only improve local forest governance, but also change the incentives to …

This paper explores the nuanced relationship between fiscal decentralization and fiscal sustainability. Employing panel … data analyses, it scrutinizes how decentralization influences fiscal discipline across different governmental levels …. Results for 185 countries show that while tax decentralization often hampers the degree of fiscal responsiveness, potentially …

decentralization context for the success of participatory governance. …

well as the relationship between public expenditure and decentralization, for Italian regions in the 1997-2009 period … expenditure on GDP) and the economic growth rate. The main results are twofold. First, when the degree of decentralization is … reasonably low (below the 31% of expenditure decentralization), a BARS curve has been successfully discovered, and the optimal …

public spending. Consequences on the degree of decentralization are investigated. The main findings are that for a large … decentralization. …

prepared personnel; the decentralization constraint should be considered according to the relocation of public services; a rent …