Important research from leading scholars assessing fiscal decentralization in developing countries.

List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; 1. Fiscal decentralization in developing countries: an overview Richard M. Bird and François Vaillancourt; 2. China: evaluating the impact of intergovernmental fiscal reform Roy W. Bahl; 3. India: intergovernmental fiscal relations in a planned economy M. Govinda Rao; 4. Indonesia and Pakistan: fiscal decentralization - an elusive goal? Anwar Shah; 5. Morocco and Tunisia: financing local governments - the impact on infrastructure finance François Vaillancourt; 6. Colombia: the central role of the central government in fiscal decentralization Richard M. Bird and Ariel Fiszbein; 7. Argentina: fiscal federalism and decentralization Ernesto Rezk; 8. South Africa: an intergovernmental fiscal system in transition Junaid K. Ahmad; 9. Bosnia-Herzegovina: fiscal federalism - the Dayton challenge William Fox and Christine Wallich; Index.