State decentralization is often promoted to improve public service delivery. However, its effects on forest … conservation are ambiguous. Decentralization might not only improve local forest governance, but also change the incentives to …

; Industrial Policy ; Financial Institutions ; Government Decentralization ; China …China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the … background, this paper discusses a variety of tactics that China's central government has been using to incentivize local …

China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the … background, this paper discusses a variety of the tactics that China’s central government has been using to incentivize local …

China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the … background, this paper discusses a variety of tactics that China's central government has been using to incentivize local …

In this study, the interrelationship between income inequality, fiscal decentralization, and public health is … performance. Interestingly, fiscal decentralization has negative direct and indirect effects on public health. Therefore, the … empirical results suggest that China’s provincial governments, which have gained significant fiscal power through increased …

Green development is critical for China's economic transformation. Enhancing green total factor energy efficiency … provinces for the period 2005–2016 to investigate the relationship between environmental regulation and China's GTFEE. The …-linear relationship between environmental regulation and GTFEE under different conditions of environmental decentralization. The …

The argument over fiscal decentralization and carbon dioxide emission (CO2) reduction has received much attention …. However, evidence to back this claim is limited. Economic theory predicts that fiscal decentralization affects environmental … quality, but the specifics of this relationship are still up for debate. Some scholars noted that fiscal decentralization …