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decentralization is associated with improved fiscal performance and better functioning of internal common markets. Fiscal policy … discipline. Fiscal decentralization poses significant challenges for macroeconomic management. These challenges require careful …
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important to achieve in development objectives is changing as fiscal decentralization reforms are being pursued by many … countries around the world. In this context, a number of studies have attempted to quantify the impact of decentralization by … decentralization is surprisingly difficult to measure. Nearly all cases examining the relationship between decentralization and …
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empirical evidence about actual country practices. This paper presents data on fiscal decentralization for about 80 countries … for transition economies, the levels of decentralization are relatively stable over the time period. The findings are … factors identified in the literature as determining the extent of fiscal decentralization …
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Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization-the assignment of … governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness. Unlike previous studies in the decentralization …/governance literature, which focus primarily on expenditure-based measures of decentralization, the results reported in this paper show that …
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Finance and growth emerged as a distinct field of economics during the last three decades as economists integrated the fields of finance and economic growth and then explored the ramifications of the functioning of financial systems on economic growth, income distribution, and poverty. In this...
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The past two decades have seen a rapid increase in interest in financial inclusion, both from policymakers and researchers. This paper surveys the main findings from the literature, documenting the trends over time and gaps that have arisen across regions, income levels, and gender, among...
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We study the channels that theoretically transmit the effects of inequality to economic growth, unlike much of the existing literature that focuses on the direct linkage. The role of inequality in these transmission channels is difficult to pin down and varies with the particular inequality...
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This paper provides a brief and selective overview of research on the links between macroeconomic policies and poverty reduction. Using the Human Development Index as a measure of well-being, the progress made by 100 countries during 1975–98 is presented, and its association with macroeconomic...
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Drawing on a compilation of data from household surveys representing 130 countries, many over a period of 25 years, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the negative correlations between both poverty and inequality...
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