Municipal Finances, A Handbook for Local Governments (2014), edited by Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic and Mihaly Kopanyi, is designed to help local government practitioners to improve strategic management of municipal finances. It provides practitioners, particularly staff of medium […]
State and local government fiscal systems have increasingly become vulnerable to economic changes. Over the past three decades, state and local deficits during economic recession have been larger and deeper each time. The impact […]
Public financial management (PFM)—-the science and art of budgeting, spending, and accounting for public funds—-is among the most fundamental elements of public sector reform. PFM not only helps to ensure that there are clear rules […]
The new Handbook of Multi-Level Finance (2015)—edited by Etisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio—provides a comprehensive review of the state of knowledge on fiscal federalism and provides considerable insight into how multi-level government finance and policies […]
This paper analyzes the impacts of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It contributes to existing studies by focusing explicitly on the efficiency of public service delivery instead of the policy outcome. […]
Despite the remarkable progress achieved since the end of the conflict, Burundi still faces significant development challenges. Since 2005, the Government of Burundi has embarked on a potentially transformative process of decentralization, with the aim […]
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