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In this paper, I examine the impact of fiscal decentralization on state-level economic growth in India. There is little empirical evidence testing for a non-uniform impact of fiscal decentralization within a country. I build a social development index (SDI) to characterize 15 Indian states into...
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We examine the human development consequences of transferring responsibility for public service provision to local governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that devolution of the responsibility for health functions from...
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Some politicians argue for the splitting and combining of states to increase government productivity, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence on the optimal size of a state. Using data from Indian states, I test a model of the optimal size of the state. I find that size and preference...
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analysis is used to determine the efficiency of Indian cities and the Indian states. The efficiency of service provision is …
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analysis is used to determine the efficiency of Indian cities and the Indian states. The efficiency of service provision is … examined taking the case of roads. -- land lease ; efficiency of cities ; India ; urban infrastructure finance ; stochastic …
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This paper empirically constructs the fiscal performance index for Indian states by using nine separate indicators reflecting different dimensions of fiscal performance of the states. Finance Commissions also use fiscal performance for fund allocations but they use only single indicator based...
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The presented article is designated to analyse the meaning of shares in PIT and CIT taxes constituting budget revenues of municipalities (NUTS 5 level). The research covered budgets of all urban-rural municipalities of Lower Silesian Voivodeship in the years 1996-2014. The source of data on the...
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Substantial fiscal consolidation was achieved under the aegis of the 2003 Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act. While deficits widened anew in 2008 and 2009, against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, efforts to reduce them have resumed since. To ensure...
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India and Israel officially established diplomatic relations in 1992. Since then they have collaborated on a host of development issues like agriculture, space research, information Technology etc. There has also been a large component of people-to-people interaction. Both nations have a large...
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India and Israel officially setup diplomatic relations in 1992. Since then they have collaborated on a host of development issues like agriculture, space research, information Technology etc. There has also been a large component of people-to-people interaction.Both nations have a large pool of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912456