A critical year for fiscal federalism in Nepal
Three years after the introduction of a new federal constitution, 2019 is going to be a critical year for fiscal federalism in Nepal. One of the great successes of Nepal’s ...
Intergovernmental fiscal transfers
Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries: Development from Below
As experience with decentralization has accumulated, perceptions of both the problems that often accompany decentralization and the best ways to deal with them have evolved. ...
The Design of Equalization Grants: Theory and Applications
Intergovernmental transfers form the cornerstone of subnational government financing in most developing and transition countries. The general term “transfers” is often ...
Institutions of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Challenges Ahead
Intergovernmental fiscal institutions are the overarching framework for relations across government levels. They comprise the constitutional set up of a country; the division ...
Do the Poor Count in Fiscal Decentralization Policy?
Various fiscal decentralization instruments help improve livelihoods for the poor. The general grant transfers in particular enable the fiscally disadvantaged localities to ...
When Are Federations More Unequal?
Why do some countries redistribute more to poorer regions than others? This paper explores which factors explain variation in the degree of interregional redistribution among ...
State and Local Governments: Why They Matter and How to Finance Them
State and local government fiscal systems have increasingly become vulnerable to economic changes. Over the past three decades, state and local deficits during ...
Local fiscal inequities and the challenges of ‘disadvantaged’ Local Government Authorities in Tanzania
Inclusion and ensuring equitable development are important themes in the emerging post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda. Inclusion and equity are not only important ...
What drives decentralization in Malawi: poverty alleviation or politics?
One of the arguments made in support of decentralization is that by involving local governments, decentralized programs may be better able to target the beneficiaries for ...
Handbook of Multi-Level Finance
The new Handbook of Multi-Level Finance (2015)—edited by Etisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio—provides a comprehensive review of the state of knowledge on fiscal federalism ...