01581pab a2200181 454500 180718b2010 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Im, Tobin Does decentralization reform always increase economic growth? A cross country comparison of the performance 2010 p.508-520. Aug This study aims to test the impact of decentralization on the economic growth of a country. Based on the longitudinal data set of 63 countries with a time series spanning 1960 to 2007, the test result reveals that there is a negative relationship both between fiscal decentralization and GDP growth and between political decentralization and GDP growth. In order to examine the different impacts of decentralization, the same analysis was applied to subsets of countries categorized into three groups according to the economic stage of the country. This further analysis found that there is a negative relationship between political decentralization and growth in developing countries, between fiscal decentralization and growth in semi-developed countries, but no relationship in developed countries. These results show that decentralization is not always instrumental in economic growth, which means that the time variable, or more precisely the stage of economic development of a country, is an important factor when introducing decentralization reforms. - Reproduced. Decentralization Economic growth International Journal of Public Administration N 88078 88078 88078 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 33, Issue no: 10 AR88538 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR