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governance in accordance with the rapidly changing global and local scenario. According to the author, the good governance of the …
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The design of intergovernmental fiscal relations can help to ensure that tax and spending powers are assigned in a way … fiscal capacity delineating responsibilities across evels of government and improving intergovernmental co-ordination. …
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The 73rd and 74th Amendments in 1992 to India's Constitution resulted in the establishment of the third-tier of government comprising of urban local bodies (ULBs) and Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). The amendments mandated the establishment of the State Finance Commissions (SFCs) at every...
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years. China does not follow the standard growth paradigm of more growth leading to lower IMRs. Fiscal decentralization has …
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The paper tries to shed some light on the problems of centralization and decentralization within an economic union and … the federal member states. Integration and decentralization are not opposite policy strategies but both meaningful if the … be realized if the manifold possibilities are combined in an efficient approach of good governance. Best practice …
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The recent process of political and economic transformation in eastern European countries has not only contributed to the decentralisation of political structure but also significantly enhanced the fiscal autonomy of municipalities in these countries. In this context many similar types of public...
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in spending such financial means. Although fiscal decentralisation has recently been quite pronounced in Eastern European … parallel development of fiscal capacity between the state and municipalities, as Saxony already has done, the intergovernmental …
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In a federation featuring decentralized leadership, regional governments compete by setting capital taxes in anticipation of the central government's fiscal-equalization and income-redistribution policies. As a benchmark, it is first demonstrated that the constrained socially optimal allocation...
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Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed … health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We estimate, decompose, and run counterfactual analysis of regional … health care decentralization in both countries. We find no evidence of increase in regional inequalities in outcomes and …
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This paper develops a model of Tiebout sorting with decentrally determined progressive income taxation and a built-in fiscal equalization scheme that redistributes money from richer to poorer regions. Both aspects are central to policy makers: the progressivity for equity reasons and the fiscal...
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