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The concept of personal income tax piggybacking

November 30, 2023 Marina Jandrevska

Subnational governments frequently struggle with a vertical fiscal gap, which occurs when there is a gap between the functions or expenditure responsibilities and the financial resources available to them. This vertical fiscal gap results in […]

LPSA is honored to welcome Dr. Enid Slack as new Advisory Board Chair

November 1, 2023 LPS Alliance

The Local Public Sector Alliance is pleased to have an active Advisory Board that includes some of the most experienced practitioners and renowned scholars of decentralization and localization from around the world. The LPSA Advisory […]

Coming soon: LPSA’s Thematic Working Group on Gender Equity and Women’s Empowerment

October 22, 2023 LPS Alliance

The Local Public Sector Alliance is a global alliance of advocates for inclusive governance and sustainable development. As central governments are often far removed from people’s day-to-day lives, local governments provide a key mechanism to […]

Fixing the financial ecosystem for local governments may require non-fiscal solutions

October 10, 2023 LPS Alliance

We live in a time of great economic, social and geopolitical uncertainty. Developing countries have been dealt a particularly bad hand and need to accelerate three transitions in this uncertain time, including—first, urban and rural […]

Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers as Development Finance

October 5, 2023 LPS Alliance

On October 5-6, 2023, hosted by the Ayuntamiento de Malaga together with UNCDF, UCLG, FMDV, the Third Malaga Conference brought together diverse actors, including mayors, government officials, development practitioners, capital market authorities and commercial banks […]

Financing Cities of Tomorrow

September 27, 2023 LPS Alliance

By 2050, the global population living in cities is projected to reach 5 billion, growing from 3.5 billion in 2015. Massive investment in infrastructure will be needed to accommodate this growth, and to adapt infrastructure […]

Coming soon: LPSA’s Thematic Working Group on Local Democracy

September 25, 2023 LPS Alliance

When a country is committed to inclusive governance, democracy, and community-led development, it will empower its citizens to address their collective challenges as close to the people as efficiently possible by empowering their local governments […]

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