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Webinar: Decentralization and Localization in Asia – Implications for Public Financial Management

August 14, 2021 LPSAManager

Thursday, September 16, 2021: 10 am BKK / Wednesday, September 15, 2021: 11 pm EDT Topic Contributor Introduction to Webinar Session Jamie Boex, Local Public Sector Alliance Decentralization and localization: Implications for Public Financial Management […]

Webinar: East Asia – Trends, Political Economy Dynamics and Creating Opportunities for a More Inclusive and Efficient Public Sector

August 14, 2021 LPSAManager

Tuesday, September 14, 2021: 10 am BKK / Monday, September 13, 2021: 11 pm EDT Topic Contributor Introduction Serdar Yilmaz, World Bank Deepening Decentralization within Centrally Led States: The Direction of Local Governance Reforms in […]

Webinar: South Asia – Trends, Political Economy Dynamics and Creating Opportunities for a More Inclusive and Efficient Public Sector

August 14, 2021 LPSAManager

Monday, September 13, 2021: 10 am BKK / Sunday, September 12, 2021: 11 pm EDT Topic Contributor Introduction to Webinar Session Hoon Sahib Soh, World Bank Context: Decentralization and Local Development around the World Serdar […]

The impact of subnational fiscal efficiency on poverty reduction in Indonesia

August 9, 2021 LPS Alliance

One of the key questions regarding institutional quality in a decentralized system is whether it serves the purpose of providing better public services and improving public welfare that also includes alleviating poverty. Among others, institutional […]

Is the Mandanas ruling an opportunity to reform local government system in the Philippines?

July 22, 2021 LPS Alliance

After three decades of decentralization, Philippine local government units (LGUs) still face challenges in delivering basic services devolved to them with the passing of the Local Government Code of 1991. Despite of the enactment of […]

Nepal’s Unsteady Progress Towards Fiscal Federalism

July 9, 2021 LPS Alliance

Amid swirling uncertainties created by internal party wrangling and a second wave of Covid-19, all seven of Nepal’s provincial governments, newly created by the 2015 constitution, introduced their budgets for FY 2021/22 on June 15, […]

The Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index

May 21, 2021 Tianyu Chen

The Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) is a policy monitoring tool developed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to promote public administration efficiency, reduce corruption, and better identify and […]

India’s Fifteenth Finance Commission releases its recommendations for 2021/22 to 2025/26

March 5, 2021 LPS Alliance

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 […]

Operationalizing women’s empowerment in development

January 23, 2021 LPS Alliance

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 […]

Public Service Delivery in Bangladesh

January 3, 2021 LPS Alliance

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 […]