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Decentralizing for a deeper democracy and a more supple state
Faguet, Jean-Paul; Fox, Ashley; Pöschl, Caroline - 2015
Well-designed decentralization can deepen democracy and strengthen the state in five key ways. Decentralizing below the … of authority" critique is mistaken; decentralization transforms the state from a simpler, brittler command structure to …
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Public finance, government spending and economic growth : the case of local governments in Italy
Agasisti, Tommaso; Barra, Cristian; Zotti, Roberto - 2020 - This version: October 2020
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Subnational taxation in developing countries : a review of the literature
Bird, Richard M. - 2010
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Electoral accountability, fiscal decentralization and service delivery in Indonesia
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Narayan, Ambar; Dasgupta, Basab; … - 2011
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When the iron hand shakes the visible hand : financing infrastructure projects through local government debts in China
Bao, Helen; Wu, Liangqi; Wang, Ziyou - 2021
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Fiscal decentralization and public sector efficiency : do natural disasters matter?
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - In: Economic modelling 137 (2024), pp. 1-13
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A general rank-dependent approach for distributional comparisons
Palmisano, Flaviana; Petrillo, Ida - 2021
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A consistent assessment of social welfare by two methodologies : the theory and evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study database
Kot, Stanisław Maciej; Paradowski, Piotr R. - 2024
Research background: Applied welfare economics offers various social welfare functions (SWF) for appraising income distributions. Social planners commonly use two SWFs: SWFε implied by income inequality aversion (ε) and SWFv implied by rank inequality aversion (v). However, a voluntary choice...
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Do middle classes bring institutional reforms?
Loayza, Norman; Rigolini, Jamele; Llorente, Gonzalo - 2012
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Structural transformation and income distribution : Kuznets and beyond
Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer in such analysis, Simon Kuznets. It argues that his 1955 paper stands the test of time in providing insights which are relevant to understanding current phenomena like the...
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