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Fiscal decentralization and the shadow economy
Janský, Petr; Palanský, Miroslav - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016
In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …
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The role of natural resources on moderating the relationship between fiscal decentralization and corruption : evidence from Indonesia
Ulum, Akhmad Samsul; Rohman, Abdul; Harto, Puji; … - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy : IJEEP 9 (2019) 1, pp. 67-75
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Interlinkages of fiscal decentralization, financial development, and carbon emissions : the underlying significance of natural resources
Reviane, Indraswati Tri Abdi; Sabbar, Sabbar Dahham - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy : IJEEP 14 (2024) 4, pp. 377-390
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Another look at foreign aid
Ranis, Gustav - 2013
The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
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Inequality and growth : a review on a great open debate in economics
Baselgia, Enea; Foellmi, Reto - 2022
What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for more than a century. This article critically reviews the recent empirical and theoretical literature on the complex interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality...
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...
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The world's two new middles : growth, precarity, structural change, and the limitations of the special case
Sumner, Andrew - 2016
This paper discusses the emergence of two new middles since the Cold War, namely middle-income countries and people living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that although there has been substantial economic growth,...
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The global consumption and income project : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015
We introduce two separate datasets - the Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset - containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in...
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Threshold and interaction effects in the trade, growth, and inequality relationship
Leyaro, Vincent - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as inequality can be considered a proxy for 'governance...
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Reversal of the Kuznets curve : study on the inequality-development relation using top income shares data
Tuominen, Elina - 2015
This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The top income shares data are of high quality and cover about a century for some countries and thus provide an interesting opportunity to study slow development processes. The...
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