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Austria’s federal system comprises the federal government and nine provinces (Länder). The federal system is rather centralized by international standards, with the federal government (including social security funds) accounting for about 70 percent of general government spending, the...
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The question of what makes fiscal decentralization work is faced by many policymakers around the world. This book draws …, and discusses the key factors that help make decentralization sustainable, efficient, and equitable from a macroeconomic …
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There is a widespread presumption that decentralization improves public service provision. This has led to policy …
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Countries have adopted various institutional responses to subnational government borrowing. Using a sample of 44 countries 1982-2000, this paper provides a panel data analysis to determine the most effective borrowing constraints for containing local fiscal deficits. The results suggest that no...
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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 …
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In many countries the decentralization of spending responsibilities has outpaced the decentralization of revenue powers …
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Argentina has committed itself to a reform of its revenue-sharing system. This paper examines this system and the issues involved in its redesign, and discusses the pros and cons of various options with a view to specifying a preferred approach.
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Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization-the assignment of … governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness. Unlike previous studies in the decentralization …/governance literature, which focus primarily on expenditure-based measures of decentralization, the results reported in this paper show that …
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There is increasing interest in fiscal decentralization in Peru as a mechanism to generate more involved decision … decentralization process with greater transparency. …
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This paper describes the institutional changes that have induced a decline in the vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI) - defined as the share of sub-national own spending not financed through own revenues - in four European countries: Belgium, Italy, Norway, and Spain. The decline in VFI was achieved...
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