Within the context of reigniting post crisis macroeconomic growth, income inequality has emerged as a topic of significant interest for both academics and policymakers (Bastagli, Coady, and Gupta, ...

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 ...

Fiscal decentralization refers to the transfer of revenue‐raising powers and expenditure responsibilities from central to subnational governments. In the environmental sphere, this institutional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this paper, I test the effect of fiscal decentralisation on ethnic conflict while emphasising state capacities as a crucial mediating variable. I assume that fiscal decentralisation is unlikely to ...

Although the share of local expenditure has increased, more than 50% goes towards interest payments and salaries, leaving less room in the sub-national government's budget for dealing with a medical ...

Dr Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning said in 2012, government will strengthen the fiscal decentralization process by transferring resource allocation functions to the local ...