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Effective environmental protection in the context of government decentralization
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the economic reforms over the past three decades. This devolution of decision-making to local levels and enterprises has placed environmental stewardship in the hands of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008858137
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Regional Impact Analyses and the Appropriate Treatment of public budget constraints under devolution : an application to Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
Hermannsson, Kristinn; Lisenkova, Katerina; McGregor, … - 2010 - Draft, June 2010
There have been numerous studies of the "impact" of HEIs on their host regions. These have typically focused on the demand for goods and services in the host region. The best of these studies employ regional input-output analyses. However, there has developed a "policy scepticism" about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560258
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Effective Environmental Protection in the Context of Government Decentralization
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the economic reforms over the past three decades. This devolution of decision-making to local levels and enterprises has placed environmental stewardship in the hands of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129066
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Fiscal Decentralization Improves Social Outcomes When Countries Have Good Governance
Nakatani, Ryota; Zhang, Qianqian; Garcia Valdes, Isaura - 2022
Does fiscal decentralization improve health and educational outcomes? Does this improvement depend on the quality of governance? How do fiscal decentralization and governance interact? We answer these questions through an instrumental variable Tobit analysis of cross-country panel data. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082215
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Effective Environmental Protection in the Context of Government Decentralization
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010
China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the economic reforms over the past three decades. This devolution of decision-making to local levels and enterprises has placed environmental stewardship in the hands of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045330
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Public employment services under decentralization : evidence from a natural experiment
Mergele, Lukas; Kloß, Michael - 2019
This paper studies whether the decentralization of public employment services (PES) increases job placements among the unemployed. Decentralizing PES has been a widely applied reform used by governments aiming to enhance their efficacy. However, economic theory is ambiguous about its effects,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124830
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Decentralization and poverty reduction in Bolivia : challenges and opportunities
Andersen, Lykke E.; Jemio, Luis Carlos - 2016
This paper presents an analysis of the decentralization process that has been taking place in Bolivia over the last couple of decades. It starts with a review of the legal framework that determines the distribution of responsibilities and financial resources to the sub-national governments (9...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440203
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Two Decades of Fiscal Decentralization : Implications on the Regional Development in Indonesia
Yasin, Mohammad Zeqi; Landiyanto, Erlangga Agustino; … - 2022
The implementation of fiscal decentralization in the last two decades has produced various findings: positive and negative. Several studies have evaluated fiscal decentralization as an ideal system so that development goals can be accustomed to satisfy the local’s preferences, so that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294343
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Decentralizing Eligibility for a Federal Antipoverty Program : A Case Study for China
Ravallion, Martin - 2014
In theory, the informational advantage of decentralizing the eligibility criteria for a federal antipoverty program could come at a large cost to the program's performance in reaching the poor nationally. Whether this happens in practice depends on the size of the local-income effect on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750922
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Decentralisation and poverty reduction : a conceptual framework for the economic impact
Steiner, Susan - 2005
This paper contributes to providing insights into the impact of decentralisation on poverty. It starts out with an … overview of which role decentralisation plays in strategies and policies for poverty eradication and derives economic and …. It shows that decentralisation cannot only influence poverty by assigning expenditure responsibility to lower levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929292