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Who profits from windfalls in oil tax revenue? : inequality, protests, and the role of corruption
Alexeev, Michael V.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2022
We investigate the relationship between oil windfalls and income inequality using the subnational data of one of the resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world - Russia. While previous literature produced contradictory findings due to the use of an aggregate measure of oil rents...
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Local revenue mobilization in Romania
Moldovan, Octavian - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 11 (2016) 3, pp. 107-124
As public institutions are faced with more diverse and increased community needs, significant concern arises (both in academia and practice) for the dwindling resources available at the local level and the factors which can influence local revenue mobilization. Using data for 3,227 Romanian...
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Revenue Slumps and Fiscal Capacity : Evidence from Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio; Foremny, Dirk; Santini, Juan Francisco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper investigates how non-tax revenues impact tax collection in Brazilian municipalities, focusing on shifts in …
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The impact of intergovernmental transfers on local revenue generation in Africa : evidence from Tanzania
Masaki, Takaaki - 2016
Do intergovernmental transfers reduce revenues collected by local government authorities (LGAs)? There is already a well-established body of literature in public finance, which argues that intergovernmental grants 'crowd out' local revenues. Most existing studies, however, explore the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548235
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Shares in Income Taxes as a Budget Revenues of Urban-Rural Municipalities
Olejniczak, Jaroslaw - 2016
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 revenues of municipalities were databases of the Central Statistical … Office. The structure of municipalities revenues was analysed, considering among others the distribution of share in own …
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From urban core to wealthy towns : nonschool fiscal disparities across Connecticut municipalities
Zhao, Bo - 2015 - This version: August 2015
Connecticut municipalities. In the absence of a Uniform Chart of Accounts for municipalities, the paper uses a newly assembled … dataset of multi-year local financial records, adjusted to be comparable across municipalities and therefore suitable for … regression analysis. The paper finds significant nonschool fiscal disparities among Connecticut municipalities. Fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401244
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Support for Alternative Local Government Revenues
Fisher, Ronald C. - 2019
Our objective is an assessment of individual preferences for various revenue options for local government to address inadequate service spending or revenue shortfalls. California offers an especially interesting place to explore such attitudes given Proposition 13 and the resulting decrease in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865039
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Implications of the Coronavirus on Sales Tax Revenue and Local Government Fiscal Health
McDonald, Bruce; Larson, Sarah - 2020
The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has raised a considerable alarm about issues of public health and safety. The response to the outbreak, however, has also brought concern regarding its impact on local governments in the United States. Local governments have been a primary respondent in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014100057
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Sub-National Revenue Mobilization in Peru
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo J. - 2014
This paper analyses the problem of sub-national revenue mobilization in Peru and proposes several policy reforms to improve collection performance while maintaining a sound revenue structure. We analyze the current revenues of regional and municipal governments and identify the main priorities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064946
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Sub-National Revenue Mobilization in Peru
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo J. - 2014
This paper analyzes the problem of sub-national revenue mobilization in Peru and proposes several policy reforms to improve collection performance while maintaining a sound revenue structure. In particular, the paper analyzes the current revenues of regional and municipal governments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066303