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Intergovernmental relations in Nigeria: improving service delivery in core sectors
Freinkman, Lev - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
According to the Nigerian constitution, main public sector responsibilities are split across various government levels. Thus, no sole government could deliver radical improvements in service delivery on its own, which means that coordination and cooperation are pre-requisites. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616761
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The effects of fiscal autonomy on the size of public sector and the strength of political budget cycles in local expenditure
Köppl Turyna, Monika; Kula, Grzegorz; Balmas, Agata; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We analyze the effects of political business cycles and fiscal autonomy on the expenditure categories of Polish municipalities. Using System GMM technique, we find convincing evidence for strong political business cycles in almost all expenditure categories, and in particular for the categories...
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A Postfunctionalist Theory of Regional Government
Schakel, Arjan Hille - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The structure of government―the number of tiers and the allocation of tasks over these tiers―has been a subject of political research since Althusius (1603) and Pufendorf (1672). More recently, the process of European integration revived the interest in the allocation of tasks across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529237
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Decentralization, Subnational Governments' Behaviour and Macroeconomic Instability: The Case of Malaysia
Jalil, Abdul; Zafarullah, Ahmad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In the last two decades there has been a worldwide interest in decentralization of government in all parts of the world … effects of decentralization on macroeconomic stability. Even though there is a huge literature both theoretically and … empirically on the impact of decentralization, not many of them seems to be interested on the question of the link between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490509
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Fiscal Federalism and Decentralization in Mongolia
Lkhagvadorj, Ariunaa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
transition countries have developed a variety of forms of fiscal decentralization as a possible strategy to achieve effective and … efficient governmental structures. A generalized principle of decentralization due to the country specific circumstances does … not exist. Therefore, decentralization has taken place in different forms in various countries at different times, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839209
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乳幼児医療費助成制度におけるヤードスティック競争
Adachi, Yoshimi; Saito, Hitoshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper explored the yardstick competition among Japanese municipalities in providing medical subsidy for infants and children. In recent years, against the background of rapidly declining birthrate in Japan, municipalities aimed to reduce the medical burden of families with small children....
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妊婦健診公費負担額における相互参照行動
Adachi, Yoshimi; Saito, Hitoshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this paper, the public burden for physical check-up of pregnant women is considered. This is a public expense that must be implemented by local governments independently. Public expenditure in this regard may be determined strategically by local governments to take into account the public...
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EMERGENCE, ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS, AND DECLINE OF THE PIQUETERO MOVEMENT: A COMPARATIVE INSTITUTIONAL EXPLANATION
PONCE, ALDO - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper offers an institutional explanation for the growth, organizational transformations, and decline of the piquetero social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I analyze which institutional arrangements, political actors, and...
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Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a Medio-Lungo Termine della Spesa Farmaceutica
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We use the same methodology, that Ecofin-Oecd apply for projecting expenditure in the medium-long term, to reconstruct expenditure in the medium-long past. It is possible to compare the effective expenditure with the reconstructed one. The effective expenditure is of course influenced by policy...
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Institutional design and implicit incentives in Bolivia's decentralization model (1994-2008)
Baja Daza, Gover; Villarroel Böhrt, Sergio; Zavaleta … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
institutional design of Bolivia’s decentralization model and its evolution. Subnational public finance data up to 2008 is used to … verify that decentralization of expenditure was higher than that of revenue, establishing a context of vertical fiscal … estimated to identify and assess the implicit incentives embedded in fiscal institutions of the decentralization model. Findings …
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