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Good governance and good aid allocation
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008
We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268553
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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269173
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Public budget composition, fiscal (de)centralization and welfare
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana; … - 2007
composition. Only when the differences are sufficiently large does full decentralization become the optimal regime. National … that fiscal decentralization increases capital accumulation. However, in terms of welfare this result can be reversed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268025
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The regional dimension of collective wage bargaining: the case of Belgium
Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Tojerow, Ilan - 2008
The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in European countries. Two solutions are generally proposed: the first, encouraged by the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269376
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Spatial decentralization and program evaluation: Theory and an example from Indonesia
Pitt, Mark M.; Menon, Nidhiya - 2010
This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments are derived from a simple theoretical model of government decision-making in which governments are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274559
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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth: evidence from U.S. counties
Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276862
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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011
,000 observations of individuals living in 29 European countries. Our results reveal that political and fiscal decentralization have a … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on … effect of political decentralization on these variables is more limited. The results show that citizens seem to be happier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278374
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Do fiscal and political decentralization raise students' performance? A cross-country analysis
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Meix-Llop, Enric - 2012
exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme … political decentralization on student performance in the areas of mathematics, reading skills and science. We observe that … fiscal decentralization exerts an unequivocal positive effect on students' outcomes in all areas, while the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287663
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Fiscal decentralisation, local institutions and public goods provision: Evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2012
Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence of heterogeneity in access to public goods across...
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Poverty, inequality, and the local natural resource curse
Loayza, Norman; Mier y Teran, Alfredo; Rigolini, Jamele - 2013
mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in the last two decades. We find evidence that producing districts have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293203