Does fiscal decentralization improve health and educational outcomes? Does this improvement depend on the quality of governance? How do fiscal decentralization and governance interact? We answer these ...

Within the context of reigniting post crisis macroeconomic growth, income inequality has emerged as a topic of significant interest for both academics and policymakers (Bastagli, Coady, and Gupta, ...

In a recent IMF working paper, the impact of fiscal decentralisation has been explored on public service delivery using 64 countries inclusive of advanced, emerging and developing countries over a ...

The agreement that eurozone leaders reached last week has succeeded in engaging the private sector in the Greek rescue. The package represents a sensible compromise: eurozone countries will provide ...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: The annual general meeting and conference of Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PIDE) on Tuesday (today) will focus on fiscal decentralisation following the passage of the ...

There is a growing interest in the issue of decentralisation of political, administrative, economic and financial dimensions. Its concern has come in the context of the trend that aims to expand the ...

Fiscal decentralisation has become a widespread phenomenon in developing countries and it has attracted increasing attention in the past few decades. The supporters of decentralisation argue that it ...

ISLAMABAD: As record Rs1.863 trillion budget deficit during the last fiscal year has once again exposed pitfalls of fiscal decentralisation under the 18th Amendment, the country’s top economist seeks ...

A series of decentralization reforms started in April 2000, at the end of Prime Minister Obuchi Keizō’s administration (1998–2000), and continued through September 2006, when Koizumi Jun’ichirō was ...

AMMAN — In a step to involve citizens in the decision-making process, the Finance Ministry on Wednesday launched a whitepaper that paves the way for the implementation of fiscal decentralisation ...

In this paper, I test the effect of fiscal decentralisation on ethnic conflict while emphasising state capacities as a crucial mediating variable. I assume that fiscal decentralisation is unlikely to ...