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Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure: Evidence from a Decentralised Economy
Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy where local authorities are responsible for the provision of local public goods. We distinguish between individualist and collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683652
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Fiscal Decentralization and Development: How Crucial is Local Politics?
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683656
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Fiscal decentralization and development: How crucial is local politics?
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274661
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Norms, culture and local infrastructure: Evidence from a decentralised economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy where local authorities are responsible for the provision of local public goods. We distinguish between individualist and collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285518
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Democratisation under diversity : theory and evidence from Indonesian communities
Mitra, Anirban; Pal, Sarmistha - 2020
We study the effect of ethnic diversity on local public spending following fiscal decentralisation in a setting where local institutions condition cooperative behaviour across ethnic groups. The theory we develop highlights the role of the local elite in lobbying for policies which favour them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222609
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Fiscal decentralisation, local institutions and public good provision: evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 45 (2017) 2, pp. 383-409
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011907894
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Fiscal decentralization and development : how crucial is local politics?
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662916
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Fiscal decentralisation, local institutions and public goods provision : evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2012
Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of scal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence of heterogeneity in access to public goods across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686877
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Fiscal decentralization and development : how crucial is local politics?
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009155571
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Fiscal decentralisation, local institutions and public goods provision : evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2012
Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence of heterogeneity in access to public goods across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680586