Subnational finance Archives – Page 3 of 3

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 […]

LPSA Thematic Working Group on Subnational Finance – Open Meeting, September 2023

August 14, 2023 Marina Jandrevska

LPSA’s Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Subnational Finance aims to bring together government officials, policy practitioners, scholars, civil society organizations, and citizens who share an interest and expertise on fiscal decentralization, multilevel government finance, intergovernmental […]

Strengthening subnational fiscal management in Latin America

August 13, 2023 LPS Alliance

Latin America and the Caribbean are among the most decentralized global regions in the world. The nature and extent of (fiscal) decentralization in the region was recently established in the Outlook of Fiscal Relations among […]

Launch of Nigeria’s first sub-national public finance database

September 29, 2022 LPS Alliance

On the 19th of September 2022, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) launched Nigeria’s first open-source sub-national public finance database: https://www.publicfinance.ngf.org.ng/ The portal hosts comparable annual data on government spending, revenues, and financing for all 36 […]

Local Government Finance is Development Finance

July 6, 2022 LPSAManager

The Local Transformative Finance team at United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) recently released a book titled Local Government Finance is Development Finance. This book highlights the partnership, policy and investment agenda of UNCDF in […]

PEFA assessments at the subnational level: A presentation and discussion

March 13, 2021 LPS Alliance

PEFA Secretariat – March 25, 2021 at 8:30 – 10:00 AM EST (Washington DC time) Public financial management (PFM) arrangements at the subnational level are likely to depend on arrangements determined by the central government […]