, the country began a series of decentralization reforms. Sub-national governance is now based on fourteen state and region …

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

paper compares three regimes (centralization, decentralization and federalism) in an economy where individuals choose their … move from decentralization to federalism, called moral federalism, is welfare improving behind the veil of ignorance if and … only if centralization dominates decentralization, and (ii) for the group that favors a restrictive policy moral federalism …