This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, green finance, and the digital economy in driving sustainable development, using a balanced cross-country panel dataset spanning 2014-2022, for 29 European countries. Employing dynamic panel estimation techniques, including...

After three decades of decentralized governance, weak fiscal capacities continue to characterize and undermine local authority of districts in Ghana and across the developing south. While significant literature has been devoted to understanding the internal fiscal problems of local authorities,...

Municipalities play a key role in providing public services, but despite rising gross investment, there is a significant erosion of assets: real investment growth remains insufficient and net investment continues to be negative. The Special Fund for Infrastructure and Climate Neutrality (SVIK)...

This paper addresses the conceptual gap between the expected benefits of federalism in managing ethnicity-based conflict and its actual governance outcomes in the African context. One of the main reasons for this gap is the conflation of federalism with decentralization. In response, we develop...