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Philippine local government public expenditure review : a survey of national government local government support programs

Diokno-Sicat, Charlotte Justine; Castillo, Angel Faye G.; … - 2021 - (Updated January 2021)

Philippine local governments were given increased autonomy, revenue-raising and expenditure responsibilities under the Local Government Code of 1991 (LGC). At the same time, the LGC instituted the intergovernmental fiscal transfer called the internal revenue allotment (IRA) to help to help local...

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Public Spending Interactions and Local Politics : Empirical Evidence from French Municipalities

Foucault, Martial; Madiès, Thierry; Paty, Sonia - 2010

This paper aims at testing whether there exist spending interactions between French municipalities by estimating a dynamic panel data model. Our results suggest that there are some interactions between neighbouring municipalities as regards primary and investment expenditures. A positive...

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Districting and Government Overspending

Baqir, Reza - 2006

The common-pool problem is a central issue in the relationship between the political structure of jurisdictions and the size of public spending. Models predict that, other things being equal, greater political districting of a jurisdiction raises the scale of government. This paper presents new...

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[enter Paper Title]An Investigation into the Intertemporal Spending Path of Local Government in Mauritius

Sobhee, Sanjeev K. - 2021

This paper aims at examining whether local government spending is characterised by anintertemporal decision-making path. In other words, to what extent does local governmentexpenditure respond to contemporaneous changes in revenues. In this respect, the papercontributes to the existing body of...

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Too Small to Fail? Subnational Spending Pressures in Europe

Eyraud, Luc - 2013

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether expenditure decentralization has contributed to weakening fiscal performance in Europe. Using a panel of EU15 countries for the period 1995-2011, we estimate three econometric models and ask the following questions: (1) does the form of spending...

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Improving the allocation and efficiency of public spending in Indonesia

Ollivaud, Patrice - 2017

Indonesia's fiscal position is generally sound and policy making prudent. However, the country still faces important challenges in terms of economic and social development. Infrastructure, education, health and social security are all spending areas that the government is trying to improve...

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Direct Democracy, Voter Preferences and Government Spending

Funk, Patricia; Gathmann, Christina - 2013

This article uses unique voting data on 331 federal propositions to estimate voter preferences in Swiss cantons. We document that preferences vary systematically with canton characteristics. In particular, cantons whose voters are more conservative, less in favor of redistribution and less...

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Just How Much Bigger is Government in Canada? A Comparative Analysis of the Size and Structure of the Public Sectors in Canada and the United States, 1929-2004

Ferris, J. Stephen - 2007

We compare the size, structure and evolution of the public sectors in Canada and the United States primarily using national income accounting data. In the course of this investigation, which is accompanied by a substantial spreadsheet covering the period from 1929 to 2003/2004, questions are...

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Turning Federalism Right-Side Up

Somin, Ilya - 2012

Michael Greve's The Upside-Down Constitution is one of the most important works on constitutional federalism in years. It is the best exposition to date of the idea that the American Constitution establishes a federal system primarily devoted to promoting competition between state governments....

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Does Size Matter? The Productivity of Government : Expenditures and the Size of States: Evidence from India

Haasnoot, Cornelis - 2016

Some politicians argue for the splitting and combining of states to increase government productivity, but there is a … size of the state. I find that size and preference heterogeneity do not significantly affect the productivity of a state … government. However, when states are split up, the productivity of the root state's government is negatively affected. This …

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