164 Chasing the Wind: Assessing Philippine Democracy Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) was set in place. This section takes on some of the indicators that decentralization has gone well. Fiscally endowed local governments For one, the IRA, an unconditional grant that constitutes 40% of national revenues, endowed all local government units, from the barangay to the provinces, with the resources required to deliver the services that had been devolved to them. In simple terms, LGUs had more money than they used to have. Table 5 shows the total amount of IRA relative to the total national budget while Figure 5 shows the annual percentage change in IRA. The proportion of the IRA to the total budget stabilized at an average of 17% in the second decade (2002 to 2011) compared to an average of close to 14% in the first decade of decentralization (as Figure 5 indicates, the annual average increase of IRA from 1993 to 2011 is at 15.9%). Table 5. Total IRA, National Budget and % of IRA to Total Budget (in billions PHP and %) 1992-201112 YEAR IRA (in billions PHP) Total Budget (in billions PHP) IRA to Total Budget in % YEAR IRA (in billions PHP) Total Budget (in billions PHP) IRA to Total Budget in % 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 20.3 36.12 46.13 52.04 56.59 71.04 80.99 96.78 111.77 111.77 295.2 331.7 369 372.1 445.1 491.8 537.4 593.6 651 669.88 6.88 10.89 12.5 13.99 12.71 14.44 15.07 16.03 17.17 16.69 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 134.42 141 141 151.6 166 183.94 210.73 249.99 265.8 286.9 780.8 804 861.6 907.6 907.6 1126 1149 1489 1541 1645 17.22 17.54 16.36 16.7 18.29 16.34 18.34 16.79 17.25 17.25 Figure 5. Annual Increase of Internal Revenue Allotment 1994 to 2011