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Spatial fiscal interactions in Colombian municipalities : evidence from oil price shocks
Mainali, Raju - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-15
This study provides an empirical investigation of fiscal interactions in the context of a developing country. I examine three fiscal components - budget balance, tax revenue, and public spending - to measure spatial interactions between Colombian municipalities from 2000 to 2010. I am using...
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Reducing socio-economic differences between municipalities in Israel
Machlica, Gabriel - 2020
Despite being one of the smallest countries in the OECD, Israel is marked by significant socio-economic disparities, which have a clear spatial dimension. Ethnic and religious groups with weak socio-economic outcomes are not benefitting from the thriving high-tech sector in the centre of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421250
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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 political impact channels. It concentrates on the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929292
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Fiscal Decentralization, Political Heterogeneity and Welfare
Neyapti, Bilin; Aslim, Erkmen Giray - 2022
This paper contributes to the literature on fiscal decentralization by presenting a formal model of the interaction … at a lower level of FD in case of spillovers than the case of no spillovers, which supports the decentralization theorem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081066
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Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries : The Way Forward
Bahl, Roy W.; Bird, Richard M. - 2008
This paper reviews the literature and evidence on the most appropriate structure of regional and local taxes in developing countries. A good subnational tax system is critical to an effective and sustainable system of intergovernmental fiscal relations - a need that has become increasingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214372
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Fiscal autonomy and fiscal sustainability : subnational taxation and public indebtedness in contemporary Spain
Larin, Benjamin; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2014
This study assesses fiscal sustainability in contemporary Spain at the regional level. Spain consists of 17 autonomous regions, two fiscal regimes differing in taxing autonomy, and two path-dependent types of communities with more and less legislatively recognized autonomy. Three of the 17...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337588
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694121
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Fiscal decentralization and the shadow economy
Janský, Petr; Palanský, Miroslav - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016
In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582864
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Does fiscal decentralization enhance citizens' access to public services and reduce poverty? : evidence from Côte d'Ivoire municipalities in a conflict setting
Sanogo, Tiangboho - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 113 (2019), pp. 204-221
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Does fiscal decentralization enhance citizens' access to public services and reduce poverty? : evidence from a conflict setting
Sanogo, Tiangboho - 2017
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