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Municipal Pooled Financing of Infrastructure in the United States : Experience and Lessons
De Angelis, Michael A. - 2017
successful in the United States, including regulatory frameworks, governance and managerial systems, the role of project …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945944
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Electoral Accountability, Fiscal Decentralization and Service Delivery in Indonesia
Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2017
This paper takes advantage of the exogenous phasing of direct elections in districts and applies the double difference estimator to: (i) measure impacts on the pattern of public spending and revenue generation at the district level; and (ii) investigate the heterogeneity of the impacts on public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976073
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Sequencing Fiscal Decentralization
Bahl, Roy W. - 2016
While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is … understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization … often struggle with decisions about the essential components of decentralization, including the order of an introduction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748132
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Fiscal Management in Federal Democracies : Argentina and Brazil
Dillinger, William - 2017
spending for certain services. Second, after decentralization, the local or state government faces popular pressure to spend … growth. Occasional stabilization plans failed within a few years. Then Argentina (in 1991) and Brazil (in 1994) introduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971218
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Financing Infrastructure and Monitoring Fiscal Risks at the Subnational Level
Liu, Lili - 2017
adequate governance structures and policy choices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975236
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Laws for Fiscal Responsibility for Subnational Discipline : International Experience
Liu, Lili - 2017
Fiscal responsibility laws are institutions with which multiple governments in the same economy -- national and subnational --can commit to help avoid irresponsible fiscal behavior that could have short-term advantages to one of them but that would be collectively damaging. Coordination failures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976097
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Integrating Land Financing into Subnational Fiscal Management
Peterson, George E. - 2017
Land assets have become an important source of financing capital investments by subnational governments in developing countries. Land assets, often with billions of dollars per transaction, rival and sometimes surpass subnational borrowing or fiscal transfers for capital spending. While reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976386
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Fiscal Federalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina : The Dayton Challenge
Johnson, Noel D. - 2017
groups. Decentralization in this context is a means to lessen the points where disagreement exists, rather than a structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746907
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Reforming Subsidies : A Tool-Kit for Policy Simulations
Araar, Abdelkrim - 2017
The paper provides basic guidelines and tools for simulating subsidy reforms with Stata using a single cross-section survey. Simulations are discussed under a partial equilibrium and medium-term framework using a marginal approach. The paper distinguishes between single priced products, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975103
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The Credibility of Economic Policy Making in Argentina, 1989-2015
Rosenblatt, David - 2017
This paper explores the hypothesis that the credibility of economic policy making in Argentina (or lack thereof) has impacted the volatility of economic performance. To establish the link, a historical review of economic policy making and economic outcomes over the quarter century is presented,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967486