TY - BOOK ID - 84783417 TI - Fiscal Decentralization and the Efficiency of Public Service Delivery AU - Sow, Moussé. AU - Razafimahefa, Ivohasina. PY - 2015 SN - 1475556748 1498348866 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Decentralization in government -- Econometric models. KW - Fiscal policy -- Econometric models. KW - Municipal services -- Econometric models. KW - Labor KW - Public Finance KW - Single Equation Models: Single Variables: Instrumental Variables (IFV) Estimation KW - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General KW - Intergovernmental Relations KW - Federalism KW - Secession KW - Employment KW - Unemployment KW - Wages KW - Intergenerational Income Distribution KW - Aggregate Human Capital KW - Aggregate Labor Productivity KW - Fiscal Policy KW - Health: General KW - Education: General KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Health economics KW - Education KW - Public employment KW - Fiscal federalism KW - Expenditure KW - Health KW - Economic theory KW - Fiscal policy KW - Expenditures, Public KW - Income economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84783417 AB - This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It uses a stochastic frontier method to estimate time-varying efficiency coefficients and analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization on those efficiency coefficients. The findings indicate that fiscal decentralization can improve the efficiency of public service delivery but only under specific conditions. First, the decentralization process requires adequate political and institutional environments. Second, a sufficient degree of expenditure decentralization seems necessary to obtain favorable outcomes. Third, decentralization of expenditure needs to be accompanied by sufficient decentralization of revenue. Absent those conditions, fiscal decentralization can worsen the efficiency of public service delivery. ER -