Financing Governmental Decentralization

This book indicates how such trengthening of the fiscal capabilities institutions might occur by analyzing the overall local government fiscal system in light of local economic and demographic characteristics together with a consideration of the administrative and political constraints faced at both the central and local levels.

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 One policy goal of many developing countries is to decentralize public sector decision making so as to "bring it closer to the people." While discussions of decentralization commonly focus on how such policies can improve the effectiveness of resource allocation decisions, the issues of from where and how these resources are to become available ar