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Russia's Regional Budgets in July-August 2015
Deryugin, Alexander - 2015
Relatively high growth rate of regional consolidated budget revenues has been off set by even slower growth rates of the federal budget revenues, thus allowing the regional government debt to have been held under control so far. Additionally, the Russian government have used anti-crisis measures...
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Administrative overspending in Indonesian districts : the role of local politics
Sjahrir Putra, Bambang Suharnoko Firmansyah; Kis-Katos, … - 2013
We analyze the determinants of the excessive administrative spending of local governments in Indonesia. In an unbalanced panel data set of 399 districts for 2001‐2009, we show that the proliferation of districts has not led to increased administrative spending; instead a lack of political...
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"Urbanization and decentralization : the changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services" : paper for 54th European regional Science Association Con...
Braun, Joachim von - 2014
"Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services … urbanization and decentralization. Ever stronger linkages between urban and rural areas represent a challenge for sustainable … them. This gives an important potential role to decentralization of government, and decentralization of services in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492002
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Decentralizing development : evidence from government splits
Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024
Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...
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Losing territory : the effect of administrative splits on land use in the tropics
Cisneros Tersitsch, Marco Elías; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2023
State decentralization is often promoted to improve public service delivery. However, its effects on forest … conservation are ambiguous. Decentralization might not only improve local forest governance, but also change the incentives to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442320
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Regional Impact Analyses and the Appropriate Treatment of public budget constraints under devolution : an application to Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
Hermannsson, Kristinn; Lisenkova, Katerina; McGregor, … - 2010 - Draft, June 2010
There have been numerous studies of the "impact" of HEIs on their host regions. These have typically focused on the demand for goods and services in the host region. The best of these studies employ regional input-output analyses. However, there has developed a "policy scepticism" about the...
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The Cost of Decentralization : Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016
In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989025
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Decentralisation to promote Regional Development in Indonesia
Vujanovic, Petar Declan - 2017
In 1998 Indonesia embarked on an ambitious course of decentralisation. Over a period of a few years, facilitated by financial transfers from the central government, responsibility for many public services and administrative tasks were devolved to local authorities. This process is continuing....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700222
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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 … services compared to the central government. However, other studies consider that the fiscal decentralization that started in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294343
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Suburban development of St Petersburg : comparison of 2 subjects of Federation long-term visions
Limonov, Leonid Ė. - 2014
The paper is devoted to problems of ensuring balanced and sustainable development of a very specific and important metropolitan region of the Russian Federation - the region of St Petersburg and surrounding it Leningrad Oblast. St.Petersburg (City) and Leningrad Oblast (Region) are both...
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