Intergovernmental Allocation of Public Resources, Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth

Is Fiscal Decentralization Harmful for Economic Growth ?

The global drive towards decentralization has been increasingly justified on the basis that greater transfers of resources to subnational governments are expected to deliver greater efficiency in the provision of public goods and services and greater economic growth. This paper examines whether this is the case, by analysing the relationship between decentralization and economic growth in 21 OE...

Fiscal decentralization and public debt

Excessive borrowing by subnational governments due to soft budget constraints and intergovernmental coordination failures might be one of the perils of decentralization. Despite a large body of case studies, empirical investigations on whether decentralization increases consolidated public debt levels are still scarce. This paper contributes to the literature by exploring econometrically for se...

Fiscal Decentralization And Economic Growth: A Nonlinear Model For Provinces Of Iran

Fiscal decentralization, ideology, and the size of the public sector

Article history: Received 18 August 2009 Received in revised form 9 February 2011 Accepted 19 March 2011 Available online 13 April 2011 No consensus has yet emerged on whether fiscal decentralization facilitates or impedes the growth of the public sector. One explanation for this ambiguity in the literature is that the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector size depends on the gover...

the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth and income distribution in provinces of iran

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