We survey the empirical literature on fiscal decentralization (FD) and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of shifting fiscal responsibilities to sub national governments. We suggest several conclusions: First, there are large disagreements regarding the influence of FD on the size of government and the effect of FD on tax competition, economic growth and corruption. Probably the only unan...

Article history: Received 11 September 2007 Received in revised form 9 September 2008 Accepted 10 September 2008 Available online 16 September 2008 How does political decentralization affect the frequency and costliness of bribe extraction by corrupt officials? Previous empirical studies, using subjective indexes of perceived corruption and mostly fiscal indicators of decentralization, have sug...

This study examined the fiscal decentralization-economic growth nexus in Nigeria, with objective of establishing causal relationship between measures decentralization and economic covering period 1981-2019. Employing autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique econometrics, analyses revealed that variables employed vis-a-vis federal government, state government local expenditures have a pos...