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Fiscal Decentralisation and Local Public Good Provision in China
Ping, Xin-Qiao; Bai, Jie - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
Fiscal incentive is closely related with the extra-budgetary revenues. Based on our definition of 'fiscal incentive', we explore the impacts of fiscal incentives under decentralisation on responsiveness of public good provision to real local needs. There are also some problems in fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363891
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Economic Crisis, Institutional Changes and the Effectiveness of Government : the Case of Indonesia
Perdana, Ari; Friawan, Deni - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
stabilization and recovery, democratic transition and political reform, decentralization of political power, and the redefinition of … government in delivering economic recovery. This paper argues that democratic transition and decentralization affects economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363280
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Do barangays really matter in local services delivery? Some Issues and Policy Options
Layug, Allan S.; Pantig, Ida Marie T.; Bolong, Leilani E.; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper, which is borne out of the need to address scarcity of evidence-based studies on barangay financing, analyzes and evaluates key issues on financing of devolved functions at the barangay level, with particular focus on fund utilization and program allocation, and proposes some policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363285
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The State of Local Governance and Public Services in the Decentralized Indonesia in 2006 : Findings from the Governance and Decentralization Survey 2 (GDS2)
Widyanti, Wenefrida; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The Governance and Decentralization Survey (GDS) aims to evaluate the implementation of local governance and … decentralization policy in Indonesia. The GDS was designed to initiate a database that will be used for the evaluation. Similar to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363302
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Paradigms of Decentralization, Institutional Design and Poverty : Drinking Water in the Philippines
Singh, Satyajit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper looks at the different paradigms of decentralization for drinking water supply in the Philippines and its … effectiveness in poverty alleviation. As centralization and decentralization are not definitive concepts, but defining features …, there are bound to be different pathways to decentralization. Indeed, within a defined national path, there could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363665
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Extension Delivery System in a Layer and Swine-Based Farming Community : The Case of San Jose, Batangas
Baconguis, Rowena T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Public agricultural extension systems face increasing pressure resulting from diverse demands for services coupled with problems in declining funds. This study explores the role of a municipal agricultural extension system in the development of a robust agriculture-based municipality and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363748
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Decentralization and Intergovernmental Finance in Japan
Aoki, Ichiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
to form a politically modern centralized country. Although Japan experienced a number of major decentralization processes …. While political trends in the 1990s favored government decentralization, promotion of decentralization became a challenge … for successive Cabinets. In 1999, the Diet enacted the Package Promoting Decentralization Act; this law repealed the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363837
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Industry and Ownership Structure of Chinese Overseas Direct Investment
WANG, Bijun; HUANG, Yiping - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
We argue that the industry and ownership structure of Chinese ODI is firstly in-line with the country’s own industrial features and secondly mirrored in the investment motives behind. It is found that large Chinese investors are mainly driven by natural resource seeking and strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277982
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Examination of the Singapore Shift in Japan's Foreign Direct Investment in Services in ASEAN
Hamanaka, Shintaro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Asia is fast becoming the largest recipient of Japan's foreign direct investment (FDI). Within the Asian region, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been the major investment destination of Japan. In the manufacturing sectors, however, the investment flows from Japan to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278055
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Examination of the Singapore Shift in Japan's Foreign Direct Investment in Services in ASEAN
Hamanaka, Shintaro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Asia is fast becoming the largest recipient of Japan's foreign direct investment (FDI). Within the Asian region, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been the major investment destination of Japan. In the manufacturing sectors, however, the investment flows from Japan to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278248