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OECD Launch Conference: Financing Climate Action in Regions and Cities

June 13, 2022 LPS Alliance

Regions and cities play a key financial role in the carbon-neutral transition and the global response to climate change. This is, in large part, due to their jurisdiction over crucial adaptation and mitigation-relevant policy areas […]

OECD Fiscal Federalism 2022 – Making Decentralization Work

January 10, 2022 LPSAManager

Fiscal federalism refers to the distribution of taxation and spending powers across levels of government, and is the focus of the OECD’s Network on Fiscal Relations across Levels of Government. Through decentralization, governments can bring public services […]

Entrepreneurial Thinking in Local Government

December 18, 2021 LPS Alliance

Local governments have opportunities to pursue entrepreneurial activities that take advantage of the assets they have to create more value for the community and financially strengthen the local government. Innovation, along with efficient execution of […]

Funding and financing of local government public investment

May 28, 2021 Tianyu Chen

In OECD countries, local governments not only play an essential role in public services provision, but also represent 41% of general government public investment. This is the focus of a recent OECD study. The function […]

Decentralization and Regionalization in Portugal: What Reform Scenarios?

May 19, 2021 LPS Alliance

Overview At first glance, the Portuguese model of multilevel governance does not seem to differ much from the systems practiced in most other countries. However, Portuguese municipalities, parishes (freguesias) and intermunicipal co-operative units, which currently […]

OECD Network on Fiscal Relations Announces 2021 Annual Meeting

March 21, 2021 LPS Alliance

OECD Network on Fiscal Relations — Annual Meeting 2021: November 22-23, 2021. The OECD Network on Fiscal Relations is one of the premier international bodies devoted to improving fiscal relations across levels of government; follows […]

How relevant are state and local governments in the United States?

October 1, 2020 LPS Alliance

Even though decentralization reforms are something commonly associated with developing and transition countries, even industrialized countries with a long tradition of democratic practice must from time to time assess their intergovernmental relations and local governance […]

UCLG/OECD: World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance

November 25, 2019 LPS Alliance

On 17th of June 2019, the first International Conference of the World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance and Investment (SNG WOFI) took place in Paris. The Observatory is a joint initiative of the OECD and […]

OECD: Making Decentralization Work

June 20, 2019 LPS Alliance

Decentralization is among the most important reforms of the past 50 years. A recent report prepared by the OECD argues that the question should not be whether decentralization is good or bad in itself, but […]

Fiscal decentralization and local government efficiency: Does relative deprivation matter?

July 1, 2018 LPS Alliance

Fiscal decentralization arguably improves government efficiency because it enhances responsiveness to local policy issues and incentivizes fiscal discipline. However, critics suggest that central control over local spending is necessary to equalize fiscal outcomes between prosperous […]