Assessment of Evolution in Provincial Decentralization

Final remarks No policy answers from this analysis, but several policy questions. • What will be the next move? . CLRC report seemed like a clever compromise, and has been approved by NEC, but may be a stalemate. • Longer term, system likely to continue to evolve, as in many developing countries. PNG's system of "national decentralization" unique and 4 tiers unusual for a small country. But several findings from our research consistent with OECD countries. Spina (2013) found that among OECD countries the ideology of parties makes little difference to the prospects for decentralisation, but that governments that are more stable and parliaments with strong ethno-regionalist parties are more likely to engage in political decentralisation.

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