Excessive borrowing by subnational governments due to soft budget constraints and intergovernmental coordination failures might be one of the perils of decentralization. Despite a large body of case studies, empirical investigations on whether decentralization increases consolidated public debt levels are still scarce. This paper contributes to the literature by exploring econometrically for se...

This paper studies how privatising service provision (shifting control rights and contractual obligations to providers) a ects accountability. There are two main e ects. (1) Privatisation demotivates governments from investigating and responding to public demands, since providers then hold up service adaptations. (2) Privatisation demotivates the public from mobilising to pressure for service a...

Background Fiscal Decentralization (FD) in many cases is encouraged as a strong means of improving the efficiency and equity in the provision of public goods, such as healthcare services. This issue has urged the researchers to experimentally examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization indicators and health outcomes. In this study we examine the effect of Fiscal Decentralization in...

China has performed under its new inter-governmental Fiscal System (so called “tax-sharing system”) for about seven years since 1994. The main contents of the system are the reallocation of governmental responsibilities and sharing of taxes between the central and provincial level. Theoretically, one of the main purposes is to realize equalization of public service all over the country. In fact...

nowadays employees in public service organizations have important roles in realizing the goals of organizations and particularly their service quality. one type of organizations in which service quality has very important role, are hospitals which are in contact with a large number of patients and their relatives. the previous researches have shown that organizations service quality is affected...

The objective of the study was to analyze the status and explore the challenges to decentralization policy implementation in Nepal. Thirty seven key informants rich in experience and knowledge, seven focus group discussions, observation of six health facilities and analysis of about 25 key policy documents provided the data for this study. The study identified the challenges to the implementati...

The typical post-Bretton Woods era development growth, and public sector size. But decentralization is approach that emphasized central government-led surprisingly difficult to measure. Nearly all cases development efforts has changed dramatically, and local examining the relationship between decentralization and governments have clearly emerged as players in macroeconomic performance have reli...