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The System of Revenue Sharing and Fiscal Transfers in China
Wang, Xiao; Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
The main features of China’s current sub-national finance arrangements date back to the 1994 tax reform. China has a … government has raised the scale of transfers. Over the past decade, China’s transfer policy has addressed the horizontal … strong budgets. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of China (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/china …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276970
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Incentives to Provide Local Public Goods: Fiscal Federalism, Russian Style
Ekatherina, Zhuravskaya - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2000
Based on unique data set on Russian city budgets, this paper shows that revenue sharing between regional and local governments provides local governments with no incentive to increase tax base or provide public goods. Any change in local government’s own revenues is almost entirely offset by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005519010
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Incentives to provide local public goods: fiscal federalism, Russian style
Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), New … - 2000
Based on a unique data set on Russian city budgets, this paper shows that revenue sharing between regional and local governments provides local governments with no incentive to increase tax base or provide public goods. Any change in local government’s own revenues is almost entirely offset by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086557
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Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One
Bird, Richard M. - Institute of Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), … - 2012
, Russia, India, China, and Nigeria—BRIC plus one. As these case studies show, intergovernmental fiscal relations in any … focused on securing a bigger share of these revenues. Both China and Russia have made important changes in the direction of … which fiscal decentralization is to be accompanied by significant political decentralization. At present, in neither China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555599
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Residential land use with demographic dynamics of young and old generations
Kono, Tatsuhito; Kotoku, Toshiaki; Otazawa, Toshimori - In: Journal of Housing Economics 21 (2012) 4, pp. 283-295
Populations of many countries are expected to decrease rapidly, with a simultaneous increase in the proportion of elderly people. These population dynamics will affect residential location patterns of young and old people because of their different preferences for local (zonal) amenities. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875219
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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276950
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From Theory to Practice of Economic Regulation: Ten Theses on the Draft "Law on Culture"
Rubinshtein, A. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 24 (2014) 4, pp. 210-217
Ohe paper proposes the concept of economic regulation in the sphere of culture, representing combination of four main institutions: institution of differentiated budget performance standards, that characterize the minimum share of spending on culture in the budgets of all levels that enforce to...
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Clusters and Innovation: Beijing's Hi-technology Industry Cluster and Guangzhou's Automobile Industry Cluster
Kuchiki, Akifumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
anchor firms such as Honda, Nissan and Toyota of Japanese assembly makers in Guangzhou, China, can innovate partly because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744808
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Concentration of goods traffic in Spanish ports during the period 2000-2009
VALLE, Rafael REINA; MANZANARES, Francisco VILLENA - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 13 (2013) 2, pp. 59-72
This paper has as object analyze the concentration of the big groups of goods dealt in the different Spanish ports during the period 2000 2009, indicating the most relevant economic aspects that have provoked that certain ports have increased or diminished the above mentioned concentration. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701096
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Institutionelle Aspekte der Regionalisierung von Wirtschafts- und Strukturpolitik
Wegener, Torsten - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Infolge der Regionalisierung von Wirtschafts- und Strukturpolitik entstehen entweder vollkommen neue Institutionen (horizontale Regionalisierung) oder Institutionen mit neuen Kompetenzen (vertikale Regionalisierung). Der Erfolg einer Regionalisierungspolitik läßt sich am Grad der...
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