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Decentralizing Spending More Than Revenue; Does it Hurt Fiscal Performance?
Eyraud, Luc; Lusinyan, Lusine - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
In many countries the decentralization of spending responsibilities has outpaced the decentralization of revenue powers. Sub-national governments have then to rely on transfers from the center and borrowing to finance their spending. When this occurs, we find that the overall fiscal deficit...
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Governance and COVID-19 in Bolivia
Hummel, Calla; Velasco Guachalla, V. Ximena; … - 2022
On 10 March 2020, the Bolivian government identified two COVID-19 cases in Bolivians returning from Italy. The national government responded swiftly and sent the country into one of the world's strictest lockdowns on 22 March 2020. However, low state capacity and low government legitimacy...
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What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?
Ricciuti, Roberto; Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2018
While it is recognized that effective state institutions are pivotal for economic development, it is not well understood what their origins are and what explains their cross-country differences. We focus on budget institutions in developing economies, as efficient public finance planning in such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943820
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Governance and COVID-19 in Bolivia
Hummel, Calla; Velasco Guachalla, V. Ximena; … - 2022
On 10 March 2020, the Bolivian government identified two COVID-19 cases in Bolivians returning from Italy. The national government responded swiftly and sent the country into one of the world's strictest lockdowns on 22 March 2020. However, low state capacity and low government legitimacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013364562
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Strong democracy, weak state : the political economy of Ghana’s stalled structural transformation
Resnick, Danielle - 2016
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Perspectives on the role of the state in economic development : taking stock of the "developmental state" after 35 years
Kyle, Jordan - 2017
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Does Paying Taxes Improve the Quality of Governance? Cross-Country Evidence
Altunbas, Yener; Thornton, John - Bangor Business School, Bangor University - 2010
A growing economics literature argues that taxation can strengthen the quality of governance and public sector … countries, we find that taxation improves the quality of governance and that those taxes that are borne most directly by … citizens are the most important in improving governance. Our results are robust to different estimation methodologies, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711122
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What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?
Ricciuti, Roberto; Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2018
While it is recognized that effective state institutions are pivotal for economic development, it is not well understood what their origins are and what explains their cross-country differences. We focus on budget institutions in developing economies, as efficient public finance planning in such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789041
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Fiscal Performance, Institutional Design and Decentralization in European Union Countries
Eyraud, Luc; Tuladhar, Anita; Escolano, Julio; Badia, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on overall fiscal performance in the European Union, taking into account fiscal institutional arrangements. We find that spending decentralization has been associated with sizably better fiscal performance, especially when transfer dependency of...
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Regional Development - Past, Present and Future in Romania
Biriescu, Simona; Butuza, Antoaneta - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 11 (2011) 1, pp. 17-32
Romania's participation in the implementation of EU regional policy means, first opportunity to benefit from a system of values that can be found between economic efficiency, environmental protection, ensuring minimum standards of existence, the definition of a "European lifestyle, urban values,...
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