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The Incentive Role of Creating "Cities" in China
Li, Lixing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines a distinctive mechanism of providing incentives to local governments – upgrading counties to "cities". In China, awarding city status to existing counties is the dominant way of creating new urban administrative units, during which the local government gets many benefits....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835975
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Fiscal Decentralisation in Pakistan
Khattak, Naeem ur Rehman; Ahmad, Iftikhar; Khan, Jangraiz - In: The Pakistan Development Review 49 (2010) 4, pp. 419-436
tasks more efficiently. In Pakistan, resource distribution is done through the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award. All … distribution system in Pakistan through a compilation of its historical trends. In addition, the study also intends to investigate …. The results show a long-run relationship between fiscal decentralisation and economic growth of Pakistan. The FD mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548412
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DECENTRALIZATION, GROWTH AND OPTIMAL GOVERNMENT SIZE IN THE ITALIAN REGIONAL FRAMEWORK
Liddo, Giuseppe Di; Magazzino, Cosimo; Porcelli, Francesco - Centro di Ricerca sull'Economia delle Istituzioni … - 2015
well as the relationship between public expenditure and decentralization, for Italian regions in the 1997-2009 period … expenditure on GDP) and the economic growth rate. The main results are twofold. First, when the degree of decentralization is … reasonably low (below the 31% of expenditure decentralization), a BARS curve has been successfully discovered, and the optimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272032
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Fiscal centralisation in a federal state: the South African case
Calitz, Estian; Essop, Hassan - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2012
The paper seeks to determine whether the observation from a constitutional law and public administration perspective, namely that a distinct centralist tendency has become evident in South Africa in recent years, is borne out by fiscal analysis as well. An overview of key legislative, policy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551820
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Organisational innovations and health care decentralisation: A perspective from Spain
López, Guillem - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006
realities’ of the decentralization process is needed. Here, I offer an assessment ‘pros’ and ‘cons’of the decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771950
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Organisational innovations and health care decentralisation: A perspective from Spain
López, Guillem - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006
realities’ of the decentralization process is needed. Here, I offer an assessment ‘pros’ and ‘cons’of the decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772574
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Central Control of Regional Budget: Theory with Applications to Russia
Litwack, John M. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001
Motivated by the recent experience in the Russian Federation, this paper examines the implications of imposing central control on the budgetary activities of a subnational government. In a highly stylised multi-task principal-agent model (Holmstrom and Milgrom (1991)), a central government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046041
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Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic Growth: Role of Democratic Institutions
Iqbal, Nasir; Din, Musleh ud; Ghani, Ejaz - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2013
This study attempts to analyse the impact of fiscal decentralisation on economic growth. It also examines the complementarity between fiscal decentralisation and democratic institutions in promoting growth. The modelling framework is the endogenous growth model augmented with the measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010660298
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Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic Growth: Role of Democratic Institutions
Iqbal, Nasir; Din, Musleh Ud; Ghani, Ejaz - In: The Pakistan Development Review 51 (2012) 3, pp. 173-195
This study attempts to analyse the impact of fiscal decentralisation on economic growth. It also examines the complementarity between fiscal decentralisation and democratic institutions in promoting growth. The modelling framework is the endogenous growth model augmented with measures of fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170203
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Dynamic tax competition and public-sector modernisation
Becker, Daniel Thomas - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 2008
This paper addresses the question whether increased mobility of capital enhances public-sector modernisation. Public-sector modernisation is modelled as the accumulation of knowledge (or another accumulated production factor) that serves as an input in the government's production of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958227