Decentralization (or devolution) has potential advantages and disadvantages: while (fiscal) decentralization may strengthen the allocative and technical efficiency of the local public sector (as well as potentially strengthen responsiveness and accountability), the design of intergovernmental […]
Kenya’s 2010 Constitution triggered a major re-organization of the country’s public sector, devolving considerable power and functions from the National Government to 47 newly established County Governments. The Council of County Governors (COG) plays an […]
The main funding source for county governments in Kenya is a large unconditional transfer mechanism known as Equitable Sharing, which provides more than three-quarters of the funds used by county governments. Kenya’s Commission on Revenue […]
A book by Charles R. Hankla, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Raúl A. Ponce Rodríguez Scholars and practitioners have long hailed fiscal federalism as a critical tool for improving government services, but it has not always lived […]
An important institutional feature of India’s system of intergovernmental fiscal relations is the role of Finance Commission. As per the Constitution, a Finance Commission is constituted by the President every five years to guide the […]
One criticism of how women’s empowerment is operationalized in development interventions is the lack of consideration of its context specificity. A recent quantitative study investigates how women participants in development projects in Laos, Myanmar and […]
The Municipal Atlas of the SDGs in Bolivia was publicly released in July 2020 during the Bolivian Conference on Development Economics (BCDE2020). The publication assesses development in each of Bolivia’s 339 municipalities, based on more […]
Delivering public services to the satisfaction of the citizen is an important challenge confronted by democratic governments everywhere in the modern world. Unlike authoritarian rulers who may conveniently ignore public opinion, democratic governments can do […]
Despite having one of the world’s fastest growing economies in terms of gross domestic product growth rate, Peru historically has been unable to improve its public services at the same rate. This disparity was particularly […]
Somalia is emerging from decades of conflict, with the signing of the Provisional Constitution in 2012 paving the way toward a political settlement. Whereas the Provisional Constitution defines the boundaries of Somalia based on the […]
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