6th Annual DeLoG Meeting (May 2011) Paul Smoke: Fiscal Decentralization and Linkages to Public Financial Management

This presentation, delivered by Paul Smoke, gives an overview of the current state of local finance systems in many developed and developing countries. It also presents the major constraints when linking Public Financial Management (PFM) to decentralization reforms and what role the international development partners can play.

You can access the full agenda of the meeting: http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/public-pub.sector-reform-decentralisation/event/meeting-informal-development-partners-working-group-decentralisation-and-local-governance-delo