Subject(s): Fiscal policy. -- Fiscal policy in Developing countries, Case studies. -- Decentralization in government. -- Pitfalls on the road to fiscal decentralization, Introduction to decentralization failures, Localization and corruption -- Decentralization and supranationality in European union, Consensus democracy and inter jurisdictional fiscal solidarity in Germany ,Asymmetric fiscal decentralization in Italy and Spain -- Effectiveness of decentralization in Hungary and Slovakia, Reforming fiscal federalist relations in Russia- Centralization of resources and decentralization of autonomy, Recentralization in China -- Fiscal decentralisation in Developing countries : Argentina, - Subnational borrowing, Brazil, Fiscal decentralization in Indian federalism, Indonesia , Africa