"Preparing for the nation’s future and safeguarding fiscal sovereignty for local governments must go hand in hand." On ...

Fiscal decentralization denotes the devolution of expenditure responsibilities and revenue-raising authority from central governments to subnational jurisdictions. It rests on the principle that ...

The Government of Liberia has admitted that despite years of efforts to decentralize political and financial authority from Monrovia to the country's 15 counties, much of the fiscal decentralization ...

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 ...

ADB has approved a $650 million equivalent program to help Indonesia modernize intergovernmental fiscal management, advance ...

Fiscal decentralization refers to the transfer of revenue‐raising powers and expenditure responsibilities from central to subnational governments. In the environmental sphere, this institutional ...

Fiscal decentralization in Belgium progressed substantially in 2015-19. However, as decentralization of expenditure responsibilities continued to outpace decentralization of revenue authority, ...

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, ...

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 ...

As the government advances its fiscal decentralization agenda, Information Minister Jerolinmek M. Piah and Press Union of Liberia (PUL) President Julius Kanubah have placed the media at the center of ...

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 ...

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 ...