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How does intergovernmental coordination strengthen local governance?

December 4, 2024 Marina Jandrevska
The crux of decentralization is that a multilevel public sector can produce better (more responsive and efficient) outcomes compared to a centralized public sector. An underlying–often unstated– assumption is that intergovernmental coordination mechanisms are in […]
Decentralization

The Forum of Federations Handbook of Fiscal Federalism

August 20, 2023 Marina Jandrevska
Fiscal federalism is a critical area of study as it underpins almost all other facets of subnational governance. The overriding issue in fiscal federalism is referred to as the assignment problem, that is, the assignment […]
Cities and urban development

Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay

March 29, 2023 LPS Alliance
What is the impact of increasing population movements from the countryside to cities and towns on the provision of local public services? How can urban and rural local governments cope? How do they finance these […]
Fiscal Decentralization

Local government finances during the “Great Recession”

March 26, 2018 LPS Alliance
This report–written by Professor Harold (Hal) Wolman for the German Marshall Fund of the United States –examines how national government policy, and particularly national grant systems, affected local governments during the “Great Recession” and its […]
Fiscal Decentralization

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 […]

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