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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618582
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012691111
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060378
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The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms
Méjean, Isabelle - 2010
Economists interested in location choices usually focus their attention on investments abroad. This neglects the fact that multinational enterprises continue to invest domestically while undertaking foreign expansion. This paper compares investments at home and abroad. Our firm-level dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677519
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International Tax Spillovers and Tangible Investment, with Implications for the Global Minimum Tax
Keen, Michael - 2023
This paper articulates and, using newly-assembled data, explores how international taxation affects aggregate tangible cross-border investment. Spillovers from statutory tax rates abroad seem: As sizable as effects from the host's rate; larger than previous consensus values (attributed to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059218
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Measuring Multinational Production with Foreign Direct Investment Statistics: Recent Trends, Challenges, and Developments
Casella, Bruno - 2023
In a complex global production landscape, the quest for measures of economic activity by multinational enterprises (MNEs) has become more pressing. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) statistics, which capture financing aspects of MNEs, have often been used as a proxy for multinational production...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654158
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009327869
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Narrowing Vertical Fiscal Imbalances in Four European Countries
Karpowicz, Izabela - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper describes the institutional changes that have induced a decline in the vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI) - defined as the share of sub-national own spending not financed through own revenues - in four European countries: Belgium, Italy, Norway, and Spain. The decline in VFI was achieved...
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