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Fiscal incidence on the island : Grenada's fiscal system and its incidence

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Gómez Aliaga, Guillermo; … - 2024

This paper examines the distributional effects of fiscal policy in Grenada. Using data from the 2017-2018 Living Conditions and Household Budgets Survey and following the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) analysis framework, we estimate the effects of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and...

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The importance of being local? : administrative decentralization and human development

Chaudhary, Latika; Lakshmi Iyer - 2024

governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

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Do educated leaders affect economic development? : evidence from India

Jain, Chandan; Kashyap, Shagun; Lahoti, Rahul; Sahoo, Soham - 2022

investigate the impact of electing an educated politician on economic development in the politician's constituency in India. We …

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Governance and public service delivery in India

Afridi, Farzana - 2017

Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … corruption. There is near consensus, however, that India has had limited success in reducing poverty and enhancing human capital … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …

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European asylum policy

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2005

Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common...

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The impact of immigrants on public finances : a forecast analysis for Denmark

Hansen, Marianne Frank; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; … - 2015

All over Europe, ageing populations threaten nations' financial sustainability. In this paper we examine the potential of immigration to strengthen financial sustainability. We look at a particularly challenging case, namely that of Denmark, which has extensive tax-financed welfare programmes...

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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy

Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...

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Do fiscal and political decentralization raise students' performance? : a cross-country analysis

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Meix-Llop, Enric - 2012

The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) referred to 22...

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Altruism in society : evidence from a natural experiment involving commuters

Mujcic, Redzo; Frijters, Paul - 2011

We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected traffic intersections in the city of Brisbane, Australia. By observing real decisions of individual commuters on whether to stop (give way) for others, we find evidence of (i)...

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Trial and error? : Reelection concerns and policy experimentation during the US welfare reform

Bernecker, Andreas; Boyer, Pierre C.; Gathmann, Christina - 2015

We study the political economy of policy innovations during the U.S. welfare reform in 1996. Specifically, we investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a political agency model, our empirical results suggest that...

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