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Fiscal decentralization and urbanization in Indonesia
Comola, Margherita; de Mello, Luiz - 2010
Indonesia went through a process of fiscal decentralization in 2001 involving the devolution of several policymaking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280173
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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 communities in the period prior to fiscal decentralisation; with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010443370
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It's Not Only Rents: Explaining the Persistence and Change of Neopatrimonialism in Indonesia
Korte, Nina - 2011
cannot explain what has taken place in Indonesia. Democratisation and decentralisation exert a stronger impact. …Indonesia has long been associated with neopatrimonialism, corruption, collusion, and nepotism as the main modi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285667
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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 communities in the period prior to fiscal decentralisation; with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291421
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Understanding the evolution of the fiscal situation of the Brazilian states; 2006–2015
Rossi Júnior, José Luiz; Aguiar, Fernando - In: EconomiA 19 (2018) 1, pp. 105-131
The text analyzes how the Brazilian states’ fiscal position evolved between 2006 and 2015, with the data revealing a clear deterioration in state-level public finances during that period. The rating methodology developed by the Ministry of Finance is used to show that, when comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011858507
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Ciência e pseudociência durante a pandemia de Covid-19: O papel dos "intermediários do conhecimento" nas políticas dos governos estaduais no Brasil
De Moraes, Rodrigo Francalossi - 2022
into knowledge that could be directly used by governments. In Brazil, in a context of decentralized and fragmented policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269288
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Ignorance is bliss: Voter education and alignment in distributive politics
Boffa, Federico; Cavalcanti, Francisco; Piolatto, Amedeo - 2021
Central-government politicians channel resources to sub-national entities for political gains. We show formally that the central politicians' allocation decision has two drivers: political alignment (between central and local politicians) and the level of local political accountability. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817080
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An evaluation of the 2003 tax reform effort in Brazil
Werneck, Rogério L. F. - 2004
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Tax reform on the brink of fiscal dominance: a political economy model
Werneck, Rogério L. F. - 2005
With an overindebted public-sector, Brazil has been on the brink of a fiscal dominance problem for quite a long time … Brazil. Section 3 shows how the combination of those facts creates very unfavorable conditions for the approval of the kind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807331
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Initial Conditions Matter: Social Capital and Participatory Development
Cameron, Lisa A.; Olivia, Susan; Shah, Manisha - 2015
field experiment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Indonesia, we find that villages with high initial social capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420744