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Ensuring budgetary resources at the level of local communities in the current social-economic context : evidence for Romanian municipalities

Onofrei, Mihaela; Bostan, Ionel; Cigu, Elena; … - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16

This paper aims to examine whether the status of fiscal decentralization generates efficiency in local spending behavior and leads to local fiscal performance and local economic growth, revealing not only the status of Romania from the point of vertical fiscal imbalance but also the fiscal...

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Local budget resilience in times of COVID-19 crisis : evidence from Indonesia

Desdiani, Nauli Aisyiyah; Sabrina, Syahda; Husna, Meila; … - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 5, pp. 1-18

intergovernmental transfers were reduced and room for mobilizing alternative finances was limited. This paper employs qualitative and …

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Pandemic preparedness and public health expenditure

Eissa, Noura - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/60, pp. 1-17

The motive behind this article is investigating alternative indicator measures for the effectiveness of public health expenditure on pandemic preparedness, to explain the reasons behind country variations in containing crises such as Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The purpose is to analyse...

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Economic evaluation of the management of municipal firms at the level of rural local self-governments (case study)

Ágh, Peter; Vavrek, Roman; Dvořák, Marek; … - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 3, pp. 1-17

The municipality generally uses its property to perform self-governing functions, and public or business activities. In the conditions of the Slovak Republic, the municipality operates either as a legal entity in its own name or carries out business activities with the help of a contributory and...

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Does the average payment period play a relevant role in explaining the Portuguese municipalities' financial distress?

Santos, Paula Gomes dos; Albuquerque, Fábio de - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 7, pp. 1-22

The average payment period (APP) is an important measure to monitor public sector liquidity and commercial debt sustainability. In the European Union, the relevance of APP as an indicator to mitigate those concerns was settled by the issuance of a Directive on this topic. Then, considering the...

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Regional heterogeneity of preferences and intergovernmental transfers

Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl A.; Ponce Rodríguez, Benito Alan - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 1/33, pp. 1-21

We develop a model with optimal shares of intergovernmental transfers, and we apply a simulation analysis of our model … accord that emphasizes nationwide tax collection issues as the main determinants of intergovernmental transfers and local … better understanding of the advantages and shortcomings of the current policy of intergovernmental transfers, providing …

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Empirical analysis on public expenditure for education and economic growth : evidence from Indonesia

Suwandaru, Agung; Alghamdi, Thamer; Nurwanto, Nurwanto - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-13

The purpose of this paper is to find the relationship between public expenditure in the educational sector and the economic growth in Indonesia since the government decided to spend 20% of the state budget on education. We used time series data from 1988 to 2018 and the Cobb-Douglas production...

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Empirical analysis on public expenditure for education, human capital and economic growth : evidence from honduras

Villela, Roldán; Paredes, Juan Jacobo - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 10, pp. 1-13

The objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between public expenditure for education and human capital on economic growth in Honduras from 1990 to 2020, using the instrumental variables (IV) method, which incorporates the components of public spending on education and human...

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The income equalization system among municipalities in Norway : strengths and implications

Idsø, Johannes; Årethun, Torbjørn; Bhatta, Bharat P. - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-10

equalization system among municipalities. The scheme, which transfers revenue to poor municipalities, helps to maintain similar …

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Public health expenditures and health outcomes : new evidence from Ghana

Boachie, Micheal Kofi; Ramu, K.; Põlajeva, Tatjana - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 4/58, pp. 1-25

The effect of government spending on population’s health has received attention over the past decades. This study re-examines the link between government health expenditures and health outcomes to establish whether government intervention in the health sector improves outcomes. The study uses...

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