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Covering three fundamental governance transitions historically characteristic of modern states—the provision of … governance through the year 2060 for 183 countries utilizing a long-term, dynamic, integrated global futures modeling system … suggests that timely and effective interventions to strengthen governance and implement pro-poor development policies will …
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<p>A growing economics literature argues that taxation can strengthen the quality of governance and public sector … developing countries, we find that taxation improves the quality of governance and that those taxes that are borne most directly … by citizens are the most important in improving governance. Our results are robust to different estimation methodologies …
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evolution of innovation policy and governance trajectories of Estonia and Brazil and how this has affected the capacities for … overlooked by standard innovation policy and governance analyses. In terms of policy implications, the paper concludes that the …
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A growing economics literature argues that taxation can strengthen the quality of governance and public sector … countries, we find that taxation improves the quality of governance and that those taxes that are borne most directly by … citizens are the most important in improving governance. Our results are robust to different estimation methodologies, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711122
Romania's participation in the implementation of EU regional policy means, first opportunity to benefit from a system of values that can be found between economic efficiency, environmental protection, ensuring minimum standards of existence, the definition of a "European lifestyle, urban values,...
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The purpose of this paper is to assess whether expenditure decentralization has contributed to weakening fiscal performance in Europe. Using a panel of EU15 countries for the period 1995-2011, we estimate three econometric models and ask the following questions: (1) does the form of spending...
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This paper describes the institutional changes that have induced a decline in the vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI) - defined as the share of sub-national own spending not financed through own revenues - in four European countries: Belgium, Italy, Norway, and Spain. The decline in VFI was achieved...
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Paying for performance provides financial rewards to medical care providers for improvements in performance measured by utilization and quality of care indicators. In 2006, Rwanda began a pay for performance scheme to improve health services delivery, including HIV/AIDS services. Using a...
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Following a decade of piloting different models of contracting, in mid-2009 the Cambodian Ministry of Health began to test a form of ‘internal contracting’ for health care delivery in selected health districts (including hospitals and health centers) contracted by the provincial health...
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This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the dissertation by summarizing the two papers presented in the following chapters.The paper in the second chapter contributes to the labor-macro literature. More specifically, I develop a general equilibrium...
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