State governments / State governments (aggregators)

The challenge of subnational revenue mobilization : the case of Edo state in Nigeria

Nigeria operates a decentralized system of government consisting of three tiers of government - a federal government, 36 state governments, and 774 local governments. The country’s fiscal structure is also decentralized; with revenue-raising and expenditure functions assigned to the different tiers of government. The most important revenues are collected and accumulated at the center by the federal government and formulas determined by the fiscal commission are applied to distribute the accrued earnings at the center cross the tiers of government on a monthly basis. Thus, fiscal revenues at th…