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Government decentralization program in Indonesia
Nasution, Anwar - 2016
development planning with a wide range of decentralization programs. The reforms gave greater authority, political power, and …, unlike in many developing and transition countries, the decentralization program in Indonesia has not caused major political … or economic problems. However, the decentralization program was ill prepared and not carried out in a logical order for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561585
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Government decentralization program in Indonesia
Nasution, Anwar - 2016
development planning with a wide range of decentralization programs. The reforms gave greater authority, political power, and …, unlike in many developing and transition countries, the decentralization program in Indonesia has not caused major political … or economic problems. However, the decentralization program was ill prepared and not carried out in a logical order for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688624
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Junk Cities : Resolving Insolvency Crises in Overlapping Municipalities
Chaudhury, Aurelia - 2018
What would happen if the City of Chicago, the Chicago Public Schools, and Cook County all became insolvent at the same time? How should policy-makers and courts respond? This Article argues that the pension and budget crises that have left so many local governments deeply in debt have generated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922009
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Do Mentoring and Oversight Matter? The Effects of Allocating Central Administrators to Local Government Units : Evidence from Japan
Nakazawa, Nobuhiko - 2019
During the 2000s, Japanese central administrators were actively transferred from the central government to mentor and monitor local governments in the hopes of mitigating deficit bias. Using a generalized difference-in-differences model and rich administrative data, I find that municipalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105338
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Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana
Otoo, Isaac; Danquah, Michael - 2021
investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using … study. The results with regard to our two indicators of fiscal decentralization indicate that fiscal autonomy proxied by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545693
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Enhancing administrative and fiscal decentralisation in the Czech Republic
Sila, Urban; De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2020
There is considerable regional variation in incomes and poverty in the Czech Republic and gaps have grown over time. With the highest number of municipalities per head in the OECD, subnational government is very fragmented and the resulting lack of capacity at the local level reduces the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421297
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Decentralization and Local Government Performance : Improving Public Services Provision in Bolivia
Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2006
This paper reviews some of the more important rationales for decentralization to date, examines their theoretical … underpinning, and the goes on to describe the elements of a nwe theory of decentralization which might take us far in our … effects of decentralization in Bolivia. We find strong evidence that devolving resources and power to local government has (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056017
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A Macromodel of Local Government Spending Behaviour in Norway
Langørgen, Audun - 1994
A cooperative bargaining model is adapted to the setting of local government in Norway. Aggregate consumption, the capital stock and net financial wealth in the local public sector are endogenized. The origin of intertia in the model is ascribed to incrementalism or adjustment costs in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967889
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On the Simultaneous Determination of Current Expenditure, Real Capital, Fee Income, and Public Debt in Norwegian Local Government
Langørgen, Audun - 1995
An extended community preference model including real and financial investments is estimated on accounting time-series data for the local public sector in Norway. The estimation results indicate considerable sluggishness in local public spending, both in current expenditure and investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967925
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Analysis of Solvency in Italian Local Governments : The Impact of Basel II
Manes Rossi, Francesca - 2011
This paper proposes a classification model of the Financial Reporting of Italian Local Governments (ILGs) and a grid of indicators supporting financial analysts in their solvency ratings. Due to their increased financial autonomy, ILGs increasingly need to resort to various forms of borrowing....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125722