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Why Decentralization ? The Puzzle of causation

Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Most countries especially the developing ones around the world are facing external as well as internal pressures to decentralize and are actually becoming part of the trend which if not universal is nonetheless the dominant trend. General causes include systemic forces like democratization and...

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Decentralization Dilemma: Measuring the Degree and Evaluating the Outcomes

Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Though decentralization for past one and half decade or so has become the most favoured policy priority among the policy makers yet the countries around the world differ dramatically in the degree of decentralization that is accommodated. While diversity in degree of decentralization across the...

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Decentralization, happiness, and the perception of institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011

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Subjective wellbeing impacts of national and subnational fiscal policies

Grimes, Arthur L.; Ormsby, Judd; Robinson, Anna; Wong, … - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 3 (2016) 1, pp. 43-69

We study the association between fiscal policy and subjective wellbeing using fiscal data on 34 countries across 129 country-years, combined with over 170,000 people’s subjective wellbeing scores. While past research has found that "distortionary taxes" (e.g. income taxes) are associated with...

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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on … their daily politics and policies. -- happiness ; well-being ; satisfaction ; fiscal and political decentralization ; Europe …

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On decentralization and life satisfaction

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - In: Economics letters 99 (2008) 1, pp. 147-151

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Decentralization, subjective well-being, and the perception of institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 65 (2012) 2, pp. 179-193

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The societal cost of China's rapid economic growth

Knight, John B. - In: Asian economic papers 15 (2016) 2, pp. 138-166

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Political institutions and suicide: A regional analysis of Switzerland

Fischer, Justina AV; Rodriguez-Andrés, Antonio - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2008

The question to what extent governance structure affects people’s well-being, here reflected in the decision to commit suicide, remains still largely unknown. This paper examines the effects of political institutions and governance structure on suicide using a balanced panel for 26 Swiss...

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