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decentralization systems by examining the sequencing and economic principles underlying revenue and expenditure assignments, the use of …
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ambitious decentralization program implemented by the authorities since the late 1990s has had mixed results in terms of …
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This paper examines a typology of grants that are used across the world, and places these in the context of the overall constitutional and legal framework for a country. It looks at the options for grants, given the need to maintain overall macroeconomic stability, efficiency in the use of...
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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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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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This paper examines how regional disparities have evolved in Russia and how Russia's system of intergovernmental fiscal relations is managing these disparities. Regional disparities have fallen over the past two decades but remain relatively high. Socioeconomic outcomes remain worse in lagging...
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Fiscal policy is a key tool for achieving distributional objectives in advanced economies. This paper embeds the discussion of fiscal redistribution within the standard social welfare framework, which lends itself to a transparent and practical evaluation of the extent and determinants of fiscal...
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In preparing for the discussions of the Iraqi Constituent Assembly, IMF and World Bank staff and consultant experts presented to senior officials from the central and local governments in Iraq, including from Kurdistan, key options that might be relevant for the discussions. This paper reflects...
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