Does fiscal decentralization improve health and educational outcomes? Does this improvement depend on the quality of … governance? How do fiscal decentralization and governance interact? We answer these questions through an instrumental variable … Tobit analysis of cross-country panel data. We find negative effects of fiscal decentralization on health outcomes, which …

Recent theories on fiscal decentralization support the view that sub-national governments who finance a larger share of …-experimental evidence on the impact of fiscal decentralization on health disparities between- and within-regions. Our findings, robust to a … number of robustness checks, support the view that fiscal decentralization does not impact on between-regional inequalities …

This paper assesses how decentralization can contribute, if proper political and fiscal institutions are present, to … improving service delivery in Asia. In other words, decentralization is an opportunity and a challenge at the same time. The … issues leading to "partial decentralization" that is common to most models. Consideration is also given to the emerging …

) provides little evidence that budget constraints at the cantonal level affect municipal finances and fiscal decentralization …