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Income Inequality, Fiscal Decentralization and Transfer Dependency
Goerl, Caroline-Antonia - 2014
on fiscal decentralization suggesting that redistribution is most effectively carried out at sub-central levels of … that the decentralization of government expenditure can help achieve a more equal distribution of income. However, several … conditions need to be fulfilled: i) the government sector needs to be sufficiently large, ii) decentralization should be …
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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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Crouching beliefs, hidden biases : the rise and fall of growth narratives
Chérif, Réda; Engher, Marc; Hasanov, Fuad - 2020
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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,...
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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Decentralizing development : evidence from government splits
Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024
Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463692
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Fiscal decentralization, rural industrialization, and undocumented labor mobility in rural China (1982-87)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2015
This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and … estimate the labor mobility with a modified gravity equation. Given the institutional barriers, the fiscal decentralization has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516465
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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of … control variables and method of estimation. -- Terrorism ; decentralization ; federalism ; governance quality ; government …
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