Notes on Decentralization, moving from generic decentralization, including energy production and democracy to EDI (Edinburgh ...

Does fiscal decentralization improve health and educational outcomes? Does this improvement depend on the quality of governance? How do fiscal decentralization and governance interact? We answer these ...

In a recent IMF working paper, the impact of fiscal decentralisation has been explored on public service delivery using 64 countries inclusive of advanced, emerging and developing countries over a ...

This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It uses a stochastic frontier method to estimate time-varying efficiency coefficients and ...

There is a growing interest in the issue of decentralisation of political, administrative, economic and financial dimensions. Its concern has come in the context of the trend that aims to expand the ...

The agreement that eurozone leaders reached last week has succeeded in engaging the private sector in the Greek rescue. The package represents a sensible compromise: eurozone countries will provide ...

A new World Bank report "Fiscal Decentralization in Croatia" assesses domestic political and institutional arrangements against international trends and recommends possible reform options for ...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: The annual general meeting and conference of Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PIDE) on Tuesday (today) will focus on fiscal decentralisation following the passage of the ...

A series of decentralization reforms started in April 2000, at the end of Prime Minister Obuchi Keizō’s administration (1998–2000), and continued through September 2006, when Koizumi Jun’ichirō was ...

Fiscal decentralisation has become a widespread phenomenon in developing countries and it has attracted increasing attention in the past few decades. The supporters of decentralisation argue that it ...

Decentralization is increasing in all parts of the world. Assessing the efficiency of decentralization as a means to mitigate ethnic conflict is then of primarily importance. This paper builds a ...