Contents: Preface
Part I Why decentralization matters
1. Fiscal decentralization 101
2. Has decentralization worked?
Part II Decentralizing expenditures
3. Expenditure assignment and management
4. Decentralizing and financing infrastructure
Part III Financing local government: the key to the puzzle
5. Financing local and regional government
6. Taxing land and property
7. Intergovernmental transfers
Part IV Summing up
8. Financing metropolitan areas
9. Giving decentralization a chance
References
Index.