Fiscal Decentralization and the Efficiency of Public Service Delivery /

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 tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sow, Mousse
Other Authors: Razafimahefa, Ivohasina
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/059
Online Access:Full text available on IMF