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Defining and measuring decentralisation: a critical review
Torrisi, Gianpiero; Pike, Andy; Tomaney, John; Tselios, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
. Different “types of decentralisation” are separately presented before reviewing a generalised approach aiming both at … multitude of meanings attached to the term “decentralisation” and its related terms. However, having assembled terms together …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259745
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The Impact of Government Budget shifts to Regional Disparities in Indonesia: Before and After Decentralisation
Aritenang, Adiwan F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
led Indonesia to decentralisation with a new political and government budget order in 2001. Researches found that the …Since its independence, Indonesia has experience a rapid and uneven economic growth. The financial crisis in 1998 has … spending. Using macroeconomic data from 1993 to 2005, this paper aims to overview the inequality in Indonesia regions before …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646828
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Innovation and Social Capital in the Small-Medium Enterprises: a case of bamboo handicraft in Indonesia
Brata, Aloysius Gunadi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
small-medium enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia. The data used in this paper was collected from May to June 2008 in several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980400
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Assessing the Mumbai metropolitan region: a governance perspective
Pethe, Abhay; Gandhi, Sahil; Tandel, Vaidehi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper written from a governance perspective takes the position that a useful governance perspective must be informed by the socio-economic-cultural milieu and in the specific Indian context must sit on a tripod of ‘political reality’, ‘state of decentralization’ and ‘basic economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259984
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Re-imagining Federalism in India: Exploring the Frontiers of Collaborative Federal Architecture
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper argues that in response to contemporary challenges, the federal governance structure in India requires fine-tuning. A directional shift is required from a cooperative model to a collaborative model of federal governance in view of various endogenous and exogenous imperatives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262874
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E-Government Partnerships Across Levels of Government
Charbit, Claire; Michalun, Varinia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
E-government Partnerships across Levels of Government, is an overview of the challenges and approaches to creating a collaborative and cooperative partnership across levels of government for e-government development and implementation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078659
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New Development of Fiscal Decentralization in China
Wang, Zhiguo; Ma, Liang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Understanding the logic of fiscal decentralization is pivotal for the next steps of fiscal reform, and retrospection of the literature and evidences accumulated in the field is the first step. As a typical transition economy with rapid and extensive devolution reforms, China is the ideal context...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650687
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Who Contributes? A Strategic Approach to a European Immigration Policy
Russo, Giuseppe; Senatore, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
According to the Lisbon Treaty the increasing cost of enforcing the European border against immigration shall be shared among the EU members. Nonetheless, the Treaty is rather vague with respect to the "appropriate measures" to adopt in order to distribute the financial burden. Members who do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294959
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Institutional Arrangements for Coordination Among Governments in Germany
Spahn, Paul Bernd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The theory of fiscal federalism makes a strong case for decentralizing government functions in order to enhance the … of politicians, and by mobilizing citizens through greater participation at the local level. Federalism respects … different cultural and individual traditions among regions, and it emphasizes local diversity. Federalism thus reflects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835433
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Validation of the Regional Authority Index
SCHAKEL, ARJAN H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article validates the Regional Authority Index with seven widely used decentralization indices in the literature. A principal axis analysis reveals a common structure. The major source of disagreement between the Regional Authority Index and the other indices stems from the fact that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835757