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Decentralization and Macroeconomic Management
Ter-Minassian, Teresa - 1997
decentralization and the potential trade-offs between decentralization and income redistribution. By contrast, it has generally put … less emphasis on the effects of decentralization on macroeconomic management, although policymakers worldwide increasingly … have to grapple with these effects. This paper examines the constraints that a high degree of decentralization can place on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401198
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Power in Economic Thought
Mosca, Manuela (ed.) - 2018
This book offers a pluralistic vision of the way economists have dealt with the question of power in society over the last two centuries. Economists’ ideas about power are examined from political, theoretical and policy-making points of view, with additional discussion of the active...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396921
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Distributional effects of intergovernmental transfers in Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Cadena, Kiyomi; Moreno … - 2020
A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202072
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National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan
Lin, Yeh-Yun - 2013
Contents -- Foreword: Markku Markkula -- Foreword -- Bror Salmelin: Foreword: Se-Hwa Wu -- Preface: Leif Edvinsson -- Preface: Carol Yeh-Yun Lin -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- 3. National Intellectual Capital Development of the Four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016276
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Crouching beliefs, hidden biases : the rise and fall of growth narratives
Chérif, Réda; Engher, Marc; Hasanov, Fuad - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392481
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Is there a one-size-fits-all approach to inclusive growth? : a case study analysis
Balasubramanian, Sriram; Bounader, Lahcen; Bricco, Jana; … - 2021
Is there a one-size-fits-all approach to inclusive growth? We look at four key case studies across advanced and emerging markets-the Nordics, India, Brazil, and Egypt-to try to answer this question. We highlight qualitatively in these countries the key components of inclusive growth models,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605019
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Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty in Poland During Transition
Paci, Pierella; Sasin, Martin J.; Verbeek, Jos - 2013
The authors attempt to analyze the linkages between macroeconomic policies and economic growth variables, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559898
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Post-Industrial Development in East Asia : Taiwan and South Korea in Comparison
Chiang, Min-hua - 2018
This book purports to investigate and compare the economic development experiences in both Taiwan and South Korea in last two decades. Taiwan and South Korea’s economic development after WWII is a well-known story. However, their development after the successful post-war industrialization has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396711
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Designing sound fiscal relations across government levels in decentralized countries
Boadway, Robin W.; Eyraud, Luc - 2018
decentralization systems by examining the sequencing and economic principles underlying revenue and expenditure assignments, the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978597
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The impact of fiscal and political decentralization on local public investments in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir Putra, Bambang Suharnoko … - 2014
We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230500