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How to assist separatists in breaking up a country... or, rather, not: The role of decentralization and development assistance
Ehrke, Jürgen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
secession?”, and “Can development policies can be designed in a way that they don’t unwillingly trigger secession as a side … effect?”. Using a framework frequently applied in the literature on secession, it turns out (a) that under certain conditions … a secession threat can be used by a minority region to gain a higher level of decentralization than the larger part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257965
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The Incentive Role of Creating "Cities" in China
Li, Lixing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines a distinctive mechanism of providing incentives to local governments – upgrading counties to "cities". In China, awarding city status to existing counties is the dominant way of creating new urban administrative units, during which the local government gets many benefits....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835975
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CONTEXTUALIZING LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Hasan, Lubna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
This paper explores the prospects of success of ‘Local Economic Development’ (LED) for the less developed countries. The concept had much success in the context of the developed world. The less developed countries, however, present a scenario where power and social structures present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837343
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Dalla crisi allo sviluppo: quali strategie per le PMI?
Birolo, Adriano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this short essay the contributions discussed at the Conference “From the crisis to the growth. Policies to sustain the SM firms”, taken place in June 2009 at the University of Padova, have been collected. In the contributions presented, moving from different points of view, the authors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025299
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Перспективы реформирования регионального экономического управления в Российской Федерации на современном этапе...
Kaluzhsky, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Article about the prospects of regional economic governance in Russia. The author analyzes the problems and contradictions arising in the implementation of government economic policy on the basis of the methodology of general systems theory and the theory of self-organization.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199847
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Beyond Gaps and Imbalances: Re-Structuring the Debate on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
How do we know whether a country suffers from vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI)? What should be done about it? Academic appreciation of these issues in general, and the nature of political behaviour in particular, both have major implications for the way federations are fiscally structured. While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211225
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Schuldenanstieg und Haftungsausschluss im deutschen Föderalstaat: Zur Rolle des Moral Hazard
Wolff, Guntram B - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper discusses moral hazard problems as a potential reason for the observed strong increase of indebtedness of German states (Länder). Indeed, financial markets do not react much to the strong differences in fiscal fundamentals of German Länder. Using a case study, the paper also shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835982
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Fiscal Decentralization and Macroeconomic Stability: Theory and Evidence from Pakistan
Iqbal, Nasir; Nawaz, Saima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The research on the relationship between macroeconomic stability and fiscal decentralization has been rather inconclusive about the benefits of fiscal decentralization. The current paper is the first to investigate the effect of fiscal decentralization on macroeconomic stability by using Misery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756494
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The Economic Consequences of Quebec Sovereignty
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991
This paper reviews the issues that would arise if Quebec were to separate from Canada. It also presents quantitative estimates of the likely orders of magnitude of their economic impact both on Quebec and the Rest of Canada. Its overall conclusion is that Quebec would be much harder hit than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784954
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Residui fiscali regionali e riforma federalista. Quanto residuerà delle politiche regionali e redistributive?
Giannola, A.; Petraglia, C.; Scalera, D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper criticizes the idea to conceive the fiscal federalist reform in Italy as a tool to empower central-northern regions to retain resources otherwise wasted in the South. We argue that such a view muddles up efficiency and redistribution issues, thus threatening the legitimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018276