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Fiscal decentralization and fiscal performance
Shah, Anwar - 2005
decentralization is associated with improved fiscal performance and better functioning of internal common markets. Fiscal policy … discipline. Fiscal decentralization poses significant challenges for macroeconomic management. These challenges require careful …
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On the measurement and impact of fiscal decentralization
Ebel, Robert D. - 2002
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Does fiscal decentralization improve health outcomes? : evidence from a cross-country analysis
Robalino, David A. - 2001
Greater fiscal decentralization is consistently associated with lower mortality rates. And its positive effects on …
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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 …
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A normal relationship? : poverty, growth, and inequality
Lopez, J. Humberto - 2006
"Using a large cross-country income distribution dataset spanning close to 800 country-year observations from industrial and developing countries, the authors show that the size distribution of per capita income is well approximated empirically by a lognormal density. The null hypothesis that...
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Economic growth, inequality, and poverty : findings from a new data set
Adams, Richard H. - 2003
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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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Growth without governance
Kaufmann, Daniel - 2002
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Applying a simple measure of good governance to the debate on fiscal decentralization
Huther, Jeff - 1998
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