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The brief on financial accountability for fiscal decentralization focuses on prerequisites for holding fiscally decentralized sub-national governments to account for how funds under their control are spent. This includes robust PFM systems and horizontal accountability mechanisms (namely external audit and legislative oversight). This brief examines eighty key PFM indicators covering 20 sub-national units in order to compare PFM and horizontal accountability at the central versus the sub-national level.

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