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Subnational Governments Around the World

January 23, 2018 LPS Alliance

The OECD and United Cities and Local Government (UCLG) have joined forces to prepare this statistical study launched in October 2016 at the UCLG Summit in Bogota. It is a first attempt to build a systematic data compilation on […]

Institutions of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Challenges Ahead

February 21, 2017 Jamie Boex

Intergovernmental fiscal institutions are the overarching framework for relations across government levels. They comprise the constitutional set up of a country; the division of power between government levels; the prevalence of fiscal rules across government […]

Making local voices count: How Senegal and Tunisia inspire each other on governance reform

January 3, 2017 LPS Initiative

Six years ago, a revolution started in Tunisia with an unemployed young Tunisian in a secondary city desperate to make his voice heard. This revolution reshaped the country’s development agenda and triggered a decentralization process to […]

Ukrainian women embroider a map of Ukraine with the different flags of the regions in the country during a pro-Ukranian meeting in the southern coastal town of Mariupol September 13, 2014. VASILY FEDOSENKO/REUTERS

Ukraine: Lawmakers fail to pass decentralization legislation

December 11, 2016 LPS Initiative

Ukraine’s parliament rejected an important bill on government decentralization on Dec. 6, and reform-minded lawmakers then had to scramble to remove another bill on the issue from the agenda to stop it being rejected too. […]

Brazil to allow states with good ratings to issue new debt

December 2, 2016 LPS Initiative

The National Monetary Council, known as CMN, said it will permit states under the fiscal adjustment program to tap 7 billion reais in new credit backed by the national treasury. The government had not allowed […]

Decentralisation in West Africa: the Implications for Urban Climate Change Governance

November 17, 2016 LPS Initiative

West African countries have been characterised by a process of decentralisation. However, in many cases decentralisation processes have been incomplete, perpetuating existing challenges and limiting the ability of local authorities to address both current and future environmental, social and […]

Subnational Governments Around the World

Institutions of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Challenges Ahead

Making local voices count: How Senegal and Tunisia inspire each other on governance reform

Ukraine: Lawmakers fail to pass decentralization legislation

Brazil to allow states with good ratings to issue new debt

Decentralisation in West Africa: the Implications for Urban Climate Change Governance

South Africa: Treasury Launches Open Local Government Financial Data Portal – ‘Municipal Money’

How Kampala is building a culture of taxpaying

Postconflict in Colombia: ‘Paz territorial’, Decentralisation and Citizen Participation

Does Fiscal Decentralisation Foster Regional Convergence?