Occasional Papers

Making Fiscal Decentralization Work: Cross-Country Experiences

By Annalisa Fedelino

October 6, 2010

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Annalisa Fedelino. Making Fiscal Decentralization Work: Cross-Country Experiences, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed November 9, 2024

Summary

The question of what makes fiscal decentralization work is faced by many policymakers around the world. This book draws on both the relevant literature and policy and technical advice provided by the IMF to a wide range of member countries, and discusses the key factors that help make decentralization sustainable, efficient, and equitable from a macroeconomic perspective. It focuses on institutional reforms (in the revenue and expenditure assignments to different levels of government, the design of intergovernmental transfers, and public financial management systems) that are suited to different countries circumstances, and their appropriate sequencing.

Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal federalism, Fiscal policy, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue administration

Keywords: Central government, Debt, Government, OP, Revenue, Spending

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    112

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Occasional Paper No. 2010/001

  • Stock No:

    S271EA

  • ISBN:

    9781589069855

  • ISSN:

    0251-6365