The budget is one of the key tools available to the State to promote development, through the implementation of its public and social services programs and projects. Through the municipal public budget, local governments materialize economic, political and social commitment to their population,...

The study focuses on the tax system in its broadest dimension, including not only the set of taxes in force in a specific territory and time, but also the criteria and mechanisms applied for its creation and regulation as well as for its Administration: Who collects and supervises them and how...

The research carries out a systematic review to evaluate the necessary conditions that would allow inter-municipal cooperation to promote and generate positive impacts on the provision of public services. The strategy used for the review was the so-called rapid review of evidence, which allows...

The research carries out a systematic review to evaluate the necessary conditions that would allow inter-municipal cooperation to promote and generate positive impacts on the provision of public services. The strategy used for the review was the so-called rapid review of evidence, which allows...

The second generation fiscal federalism (SGFF) approach is used as a reference to analyze the political and fiscal institutional design of Bolivia’s decentralization model and its evolution. Subnational public finance data up to 2008 is used to verify that decentralization of expenditure was...

Este trabajo estudia el impacto de la explotación de hidrocarburos y minerales sobre el desarrollo regional y local reciente en Colombia. Examina si los Departamentos y Municipios productores de hidrocarburos y carbón, y receptores de regalíashan crecido más, o presentan mayores niveles de...

This paper estimates the optimal government size for the state governments in Mexico, investigating the role of public services in the production process. It is assumed that government services are optimally provided when their marginal product equals unity (the "Barro rule"). The empirical...

Spanish Abstract: El sistema fiscal mexicano se ha caracterizado por una fuerte dependencia de las finanzas públicas subnacionales en relación a los recursos que el gobierno federal les envía a los estados y municipios mediante el mecanismo de transferencias federales. La composición del...

English Abstract: This article presents a comparative analysis of the optimal fiscal response to shocks in the sub-national public sector in cooperative and non-cooperative models. The analysis is undertaken by comparing models that assume idiosyncratic demandside shocks and sub-national...

Mexico's fiscal response to the needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic was among the lowest compared to other Latin American countries. This study examines the fiscal effort at the state level in Mexico over a 27-year period, using a panel database that includes all 31 states of the Republic....