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Does the Amalgamation of Local Governments Really Improve Service Delivery, Fiscal Capacity and Citizen Choice?

March 25, 2025 Marina Jandrevska
The amalgamation of local governments has been touted as one of the main methods to improve service delivery and increase fiscal capacity. While there have been a number of research papers looking at the experience […]
Community

The World Bank Multilevel-Governance and Decentralization for Delivery Program

December 17, 2023 LPS Alliance
The role that decentralization plays in public sector management around the world is evolving. Whereas decentralization has traditionally been pursued in countries as a governance reform to increase political competition and to bring the public […]
Decentralization

Municipal finance in the Netherlands and Worldwide

December 13, 2023 Marina Jandrevska
VNG International is the International Cooperation Agency of the Association of Netherlands Municipalities, rooted in a long history of local democracy and local government. The organization’s mission is to strengthen democratic local government in developing […]
Community

Upcoming Course: Inclusive Service Delivery & the SDGs

December 3, 2022 Laura Rincón
How can inclusive local service delivery contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? How can the different layers of government work together to ensure that basic services also reach marginalized people? And how can public […]
Argentina

Subnational Governance in Large Federal Countries

May 22, 2022 LPSAManager
Decentralization, effective intergovernmental relations and good subnational governance are pursued by countries around the world. However, nearly two-thirds of the world’s population–over 5 billion people–live in the fifteen largest, most populous countries in the world. […]
Decentralization

Electoral Accountability and Fiscal Federalism: The Case of Peru

September 19, 2021 LPS Alliance
Accountability is at the heart of the democratic enterprise. One commonly touted benefit of decentralization is that it promotes this accountability by allowing sub-national governments to target fiscal policy more precisely to the varying preferences […]
Community

Strengthening the links between PFM and service delivery in sectors

September 5, 2021 LPS Alliance
Around the world, there are major failings in the provision of core public services. PFM is expected to play a crucial role in the implementation of national and sectoral policies and ensuring more effective and […]
Fiscal Decentralization

Fiscal Decentralization and the Efficiency of Public Service Delivery

July 18, 2015 Jamie Boex
This paper analyzes the impacts of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It contributes to existing studies by focusing explicitly on the efficiency of public service delivery instead of the policy outcome. […]

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