Abstract
Countries around the globe are devolving political, fiscal and administrative
powers to lower tiers of government. In Pakistan, devolution reforms were
launched through Local Government Ordinance in 2001, with three interrelated
objectives. Service delivery was given special prominence. It was argued that
empowered, staffed and resourced local governments would deliver better
resources to improve education, health and municipal services. The objective of
this study is to analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization in improvement of
public services across selected districts of Punjab province of Pakistan,
covering the period from 2003 to 2014 pooled for 12 years. The study applied
the fixed and random effects models for panel data analysis and finds that fiscal
decentralization improves the delivery of education and health services in
districts of Punjab during Pervaiz Musharraf’s regime while this effect reversed
after the change of regime in 2008.Thus, it is proposed to decentralize the fiscal,
administrative and political powers after making proper planning and
management. The continuous monitoring is proposed for successful
implementation and effectiveness of the policy.
Mehr-un-Nisa, Samina Khalil. (2017) Impact Assessment of Fiscal Decentralization in Improving Public Service Delivery: A Case Study of Districts in Punjab, Putaj Humanities And Social Science, Volume-24, Issue-1.
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