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[ March 18, 2023 ] Announcing the winner of the Global Outstanding Decentralization Paper Award Africa
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[ March 14, 2023 ] DCID’s Fiscal Decentralization Course 2023 Community
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[ March 5, 2023 ] Local Finances and the Green Transition COVID-19

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 […]

Accountability and Transparency in English Local Government: Moving from ‘Matching Parts’ to ‘Awkward Couple’?

August 29, 2015 LPS Alliance

Although excessive transparency and accountability demands can have a counterproductive effect on organisational performance (Bovens, 2005), longstanding hierarchical accountability structures to ensure financial conformance in English local government continue to endure. Interestingly however, the previously […]