Front Matter Page
Fiscal Affairs Department
Authorized for distribution by Sanjeev Gupta
Contents
I. Introduction
II. Literature Review
III. Data and Preliminary Findings
A. Decentralization Indicators.
B. Governance Indicators
C. Preliminary Findings
IV. Main Findings
A. Testable Hypothesis
B. Baseline Regressions and Sensitivity Analysis
C. Dealing with Reverse Causality.
V. Decentralization and Subnational Revenue Mobilization
A. Revenue Mobilization Capacity
B. Does the Level of Decentralization Matter?
C. More on the Level of Decentralization
D. Discussion.
VI. Conclusions and Policy Implications
Tables
1. Descriptive Statistics
2. Expenditure Decentralization and Governance: Cross-Sectional Analyisis, 1980–1998
3. Instrumental Expenditure Decentralization and Governance: Cross-Sectional Analysis, 1980–1998
4. Financing Source Decemtralization and Governance: Cross-Sectional Analysis, 1980–1998
Figure
1. Governance and Decentralization: Period Averages, 1980–98
Appendix
I Governance Indices: More Information
References