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The territorial impact of COVID-19

August 12, 2020 LPS Initiative

In the first six months of 2020, COVID-19 has affected almost all countries and eight million people around the world. COVID-19 has governments operating in a context of radical uncertainty, and faced with difficult trade-offs […]

Reforms of fiscal relations in Brazil

April 2, 2020 LPS Alliance

Brazil is a three-tiered federation since the Federal Constitution of 1988 decentralized the political power and strengthened federalism, turning the municipalities into a member of the federation with administrative and political autonomy. The federal pact […]

WUF: If You Want to Go Far, Go with Many

March 14, 2020 LPS Initiative

The tenth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF10), convened by UN-Habitat, was held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from the 8th to 13th of February 2020. It was the first time that an […]

Integrating Lagging and Leading Areas in the Middle East and North Africa

February 19, 2020 LPS Alliance

Policymakers across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have long tried to integrate their people spatially and economically. Wishing to bring communities together and narrow economic gaps, governments have made large capital investments in […]

Local Elections, State Capture, and Development in Nigeria

February 14, 2020 LPS Alliance

Local government councils elections in Nigeria are supposed to be held regularly in the 774 local government areas of Nigeria stipulated by the 1999 constitution. However, they are under the organisational lead of the state […]

PEFA: Guidance for Subnational Government PEFA Assessments

January 30, 2020 LPS Alliance

The PEFA Steering Committee decided on June 2019 to revise the guidance for subnational government (SNG) PEFA assessments to better reflect SNG typologies and intergovernmental fiscal relations systems in each country. The revised guidance proposes […]

The territorial impact of COVID-19

Reforms of fiscal relations in Brazil

WUF: If You Want to Go Far, Go with Many

Integrating Lagging and Leading Areas in the Middle East and North Africa

Local Elections, State Capture, and Development in Nigeria

PEFA: Guidance for Subnational Government PEFA Assessments

WUF: Cities of opportunities – Connecting Culture and Innovation

Local governments in Canada: Building better lives together

UCLG/OECD: World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance

Making (De)centralization Work in South Asia