Much of the recent worldwide trend towards devolution has been driven by the belief that fiscal decentralization is … expenditures, which has been associated with lower levels of economic growth in countries where devolution has been driven from …-up processes of devolution may be at the origin of the diverse capacity to deliver greater allocative and productive efficiency and …

Purpose – The aim of the article is to analyse HR devolution from HR departments to the line. Two important problems … are addressed. The first problem concerns the disregard for the changes in line management that comes with HR devolution …

to extend its devolution agenda by embracing city-regionalism and the new localism, ostensibly to create new spaces of … empowerment and engagement. But devolution is not the whole story of New Labour's attitude to power. On the contrary, this article … in practice. Drawing on these three devolution narratives, it concludes by assessing the implications for the current …