Present work is an attempt to explore intersperse of fiscal decentralization and public investment in Pakistan. The … struggling to adopt the decentralization process like Pakistan. Finally, the study suggested that a clear mandate of fiscal … responsibilities at central and provincial level is also needed to improve the benefits of fiscal decentralization in Pakistan. …

governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

This paper examines whether revenue decentralization and direct external financial supervision affect the incidence and …

This paper examines whether revenue decentralization and direct external financial supervision affect the incidence and …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

This paper revisits the fiscal decentralization theorem, by relaxing the role of the assumption that governments are …) centralization can welfare-dominate decentralization even if there are no externalities and regions are heterogenous; (ii …) decentralization can welfare-dominate centralization even if there are positive externalities and regions are homogenous. The intuition …

This paper revisits the fiscal quot;decentralization theoremquot;, by relaxing the role of the assumption that … voting, (i) centralization can welfare-dominate decentralization even if there are no externalities and regions are … heterogenous; (ii) decentralization can welfare-dominate centralization even if there are positive externalities and regions are …