Decentralization

Handbook of Multi-Level Finance

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 […]

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Decentralization

LPS Country Profiles

Despite the considerable importance of the local public sector, previous efforts to collect data on the various aspects of decentralization and local governance have not given rise to a single authoritative data set on the […]

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Decentralization

Measuring Localization

The localization of public services and development is a relatively new concept. In contrast to existing measures of decentralization—which only focus on measuring the activities and expenditures of elected local governments—the concept of the local […]