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Local governments’ fiscal balance, privatization, and banking sector reform in transition countries

Crivelli, Ernesto - 2012

Several transition economies have undertaken fiscal decentralization reforms over the past two decades along with … liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances …

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Uganda : Managing More Effective Decentralization

Brosio, Giorgio - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. A BENCHMARK: PRINCIPLES OF DECENTRALIZATION REFORM -- III. UGANDA …'S DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS: THE INSTITUTIONS -- IV. SPECIFIC OUTCOMES IN SERVICE DELIVERY -- V. FINAL REMARKS -- References. …

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Fiscal Decentralization and Public Subnational Financial Management in Peru.

Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BACKGROUND -- III. DECENTRALIZATION AND OVERALL FISCAL CONSTRAINTS -- IV …

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Platform Precommitment via Decentralization

Reuter, Marco - 2024

only if the size of the locked-in effect exceeds some threshold. Further, progressive decentralization through airdrops can …

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Fiscal Decentralization Improves Social Outcomes When Countries Have Good Governance

Nakatani, Ryota - 2022

Does fiscal decentralization improve health and educational outcomes? Does this improvement depend on the quality of … governance? How do fiscal decentralization and governance interact? We answer these questions through an instrumental variable … Tobit analysis of cross-country panel data. We find negative effects of fiscal decentralization on health outcomes, which …

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Social Capital and Civil Society

Fukuyama, Francis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

Social capital is an instantiated informal norm that promotes cooperation between individuals. In the economic sphere it reduces transaction costs, and in the political sphere it promotes the kind of associational life that is necessary for the success of limited government and modern democracy....

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Local Service Provision in Selected Oecd Countries; Do Decentralized Operations Work Better?

Ahmad, Ehtisham; Brosio, Giorgio; Tanzi, Vito - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

There is a widespread presumption that decentralization improves public service provision. This has led to policy …

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How Should Subnational Government Borrowing Be Regulated? Some Cross-Country Empirical Evidence

Plekhanov, Alexander; Singh, Raju Jan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Countries have adopted various institutional responses to subnational government borrowing. Using a sample of 44 countries 1982-2000, this paper provides a panel data analysis to determine the most effective borrowing constraints for containing local fiscal deficits. The results suggest that no...

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Fiscal Performance, Institutional Design and Decentralization in European Union Countries

Eyraud, Luc; Tuladhar, Anita; Escolano, Julio; Badia, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on overall fiscal performance in the European Union, taking into … account fiscal institutional arrangements. We find that spending decentralization has been associated with sizably better …

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Decentralizing Spending More Than Revenue; Does it Hurt Fiscal Performance?

Eyraud, Luc; Lusinyan, Lusine - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

In many countries the decentralization of spending responsibilities has outpaced the decentralization of revenue powers …

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