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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...
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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...
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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 …
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Fiscal autonomy and self-setermination
Loumeau, Gabriel; Stettler, Christian - 2021
This paper studies the equilibrium effects of local fiscal autonomy accounting for benefits from self-determination. It proposes a quantifiable structural equilibrium framework in which imperfectly mobile heterogeneous households sort themselves across jurisdictions under endogenous public good...
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Fiscal decentralisation and income inequality : empirical evidence from OECD countries
Stossberg, Sibylle; Bartolini, David; Blöchliger, Hansjörg - 2016
This paper investigates the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and economy-wide disposable income inequality … several indicators of national income inequality and a wide array of fiscal decentralisation indicators. The results indicate … a weak, inequality-reducing relationship between decentralisation and income inequality, as measured by the Gini …
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An evaluation of the 1997 fiscal decentralization reform in Mexico : the case of the health sector
Martínez Fritscher, André; Rodríguez-Zamora, Carolina - 2011
This paper studies the impact of the health decentralization of funds and responsibilities that took place in Mexico in 1997 on state level health outcomes. It renders two main results. First, the magnitude of transfers from the federal government to states failed to take into account...
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The impact of fiscal and political decentralization on local public investments in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir Putra, Bambang Suharnoko … - 2014
We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the sub-national level. Based on panel data for 271 Indonesian districts for the years of 1994 to 2009, we address the determinants of local investment expenditures in public...
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The impact of fiscal and political decentralization on local public investments in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir Putra, Bambang Suharnoko … - 2014
We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the sub-national level. Based on panel data for 271 Indonesian districts for the years of 1994 to 2009, we address the determinants of local investment expenditures in public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231706
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Local public finances and municipal reform in Finland
André, Christophe; García, Clara - 2014
Finnish municipalities enjoy ample fiscal autonomy and provide or arrange the provision of a large share of public services. In recent years, their spending and debt has been increasing steadily, especially because of population ageing and increases in the cost of health care and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375402
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Improving service delivery through decentralization : a challenge for Asia
Brosio, Giorgio - 2014
This paper assesses how decentralization can contribute, if proper political and fiscal institutions are present, to improving service delivery in Asia. In other words, decentralization is an opportunity and a challenge at the same time. The paper presents the salient characteristics of...
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