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investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using … study. The results with regard to our two indicators of fiscal decentralization indicate that fiscal autonomy proxied by …
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In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …
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The regional development policy in Brazil materializes mainly in the regional development funds for the north-east (FNE), the north (FNO), and the centre-west (FCO), in which more than EUR36 billion was invested between 2004 and 2010. This paper examines the economic effect of these regional...
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. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
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, which shows characteristics of decentralization while representing a rather centralized machine and tends to be multi …-up recovery process that leverages the decentralization potential and multi-actor energy is needed to benefit the current system …
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Indonesia went through a process of fiscal decentralization in 2001 involving the devolution of several policymaking … dataset of local governments for 1996 and 2004-05 to estimate the effect of the decentralization of minimum-wage setting in …
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. The contemporary ethnic-based decentralization is one such policy. This study seeks to contextualize this policy as … presently pursued in Uganda. making three core arguments. First, common to colonial and post-colonial decentralization … geographical factors, territorial size, and ethnic-based marginalization as core principles guiding decentralization, the latter …
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In this study an attempt has been made to assess the potential of land as a municipal financing tool in four Indian cities, to enable better public service delivery and attainment of the MDGs. The institutional arrangements for land use are fragmented in India's cities between the urban...
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In order to implement clean energy transition programmes, the national and sub-national governments in Nigeria will incur some cost. In the same way, failure to implement the policies will come with some costs. This paper therefore considers the fiscal policy implications of Nigerian...
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The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...
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