TY - BOOK ID - 84541778 TI - Fiscal Decentralization and Governance : A Cross-Country Analysis. AU - International Monetary Fund. AU - International Monetary Fund PY - 2001 SN - 1462307612 1452772460 1281379247 9786613779670 1451895755 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public Finance KW - Criminology KW - State and Local Government KW - Intergovernmental Relations: General KW - Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior KW - Fiscal Policy KW - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General KW - Bureaucracy KW - Administrative Processes in Public Organizations KW - Corruption KW - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Corporate crime KW - white-collar crime KW - Revenue mobilization KW - Fiscal federalism KW - Expenditure KW - Revenue administration KW - Fiscal policy KW - Crime KW - Expenditures, Public KW - Revenue KW - Belgium KW - White-collar crime UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84541778 AB - Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization-the assignment of expenditure and revenue mobilization functions to subnational levels of government-is associated with various indicators of governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness. Unlike previous studies in the decentralization/governance literature, which focus primarily on expenditure-based measures of decentralization, the results reported in this paper show that the relationship between decentralization and governance depends on how subnational expenditures are financed. The higher the share in total subnational revenues of nontax revenues and grants and transfers from higher levels of government, the stronger the association between decentralization and governance. ER -