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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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. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
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The movement toward inclusivity in global soft law making is set out against a backdrop of historically uneven representation in global institutions. An innovative effort to advance participation in soft law development began in 2012 with the establishment of the United Nations Commission on...
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of this phenomenon in the Chinese context in terms of administrative decentralization. Administrative decentralization is …. Decentralization increases communication costs associated with the implementation of law, and changes the structure of taxpayers' costs …
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This paper studies the efficiency of decentralized leadership in federations where selfish regional governments provide regional and federal public goods and the benevolent central government implements interregional earmarked and income transfers. Without residential mobility, unlimited...
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potential disadvantage with decentralization in our model is that local dominant groups with rather extreme preferences may win … the centralized solution may welfare dominate decentralization even in the absence of scale economics and interregional …, factors that are normally considered to be arguments in favor of decentralization, may reduce the attractiveness of the …
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comparing decentralized and centralized system. As in the recent Second Generation Theory (SGT) of fiscal federalism (Seabright … production cost of the public good in each region, a different trade-off - from the traditional and new theory of fiscal …. Given this general framework, the convenience of decentralization versus centralization mainly depends on the interaction …
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Fiscal decentralization is high on the agenda in policy fora. This paper empirically investigates the underlying causes … of fiscal decentralization, based on the predictions of a simple political economy model. We argue that the likeliness …, the theory's main insight being that the central government's electoral strength should, all else being equal, decrease …
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In a federation with decentralized leadership, many regional governments provide multiple types of public goods and the center implements interregional income transfers. The symmetric perfect equilibrium under unlimited decentralized leadership is inefficient because regional public goods are...
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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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