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Devolution as a means to adequate social safety nets?
Van Mechelen, Natascha; De Maesschalck, Veerle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Decentralisation is invariably among the recommendations that international organisations such as the World Bank make for an enhancement of social provisions, and particularly a better targeting of social assistance regimes, in Eastern and Central Europe. However, theoretical literature as wel...
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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009
component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization. …
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Government Spending and Tax Revenue Decentralization and Public Sector Efficiency : Do Natural Disasters Matter?
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2023
empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … estimate the effect of decentralization on public sector efficiency and how extreme natural disasters mediate this relationship …. The sample covers 36 OECD countries between 2006 and 2019. Our results show that tax revenue decentralization decreases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356487
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Should Income Inequality be Praised? Multiple Public Goods Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016
We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
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Defense R&D: Effects on Economic Growth and Social Welfare
Chu, Angus C.; Lai, Ching-Chong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In the US, defense R&D share of GDP has decreased significantly since 1960. To analyze the implications on economic growth and welfare, we develop an R&D-based growth model that features the commonly discussed crowding-out and spillover effects of defense R&D on civilian R&D. The model also...
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Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019
Income equality and trust seem to go along with several other ingredients of social capital as determinants of economic growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank and by The Standardized World Income Inequality...
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How Economic Growth Impinges on Income Inequalities?
Alves, José; Coelho, Jose Carlos; Roxo, Alexandre - 2022
Performing a panel data analysis for OECD countries, during the period between 1990 and 2019, this article investigates the relationship between economic growth and income inequalities. The main objective is to understand how the GDP and GNI per capita affect income inequality and how they...
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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2010
and economic liberalization affect governments' respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274933
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Trade Liberalization and Environmental Taxation in Federal Systems
Fredriksson, Per G.; Matschke, Xenia - 2014
The literature on trade liberalization and environment has not considered federal structures. This paper shows how the … design of environmental policy in a federal system has implications for the effects of trade reform. Trade liberalization … with trade liberalization if federal taxes are used. …
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