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Human Rights Criticism of the World Bank's Private Sector Development and Privatization Projects
Kinley, David; Davis, Tom - 2015
The World Bank is no stranger to criticism of its projects, especially in respect of its privatization and private sector development projects. Critics point to the environmental, social and cultural damage that certain projects have caused, which for some appears not just to be a product of the...
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Modern Challenges of Monetary Policy Strategies : Inflation and Devaluation Influence on Economic Development of the Country
Abuselidze, George - 2020
The article discusses causes and socio-economic peculiarities of one of the most difficult and undesirable condition for the economy-inflation and devaluation. The purpose of the research is to analyze the socio-economic results of inflation and devaluation in Georgia and to determine the main...
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Assessing the social welfare effects of government transfer programs : some international comparisons
Kakwani, Nanak; Wang, Xiaobing; Xu, Jing; Yue, Ximing - 2020
This paper offers a new way of assessing government cash transfers using a social welfare function framework. It demonstrates how one can use social welfare functions to measure the efficiency of such program s without requir ing the specif ication of a poverty line or particular poverty...
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Fiscal decentralization and the shadow economy
Janský, Petr; Palanský, Miroslav - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016
In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …
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One size fits all? : decentralization, corruption, and the monitoring of bureaucrats
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009
The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850516
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One Size Fits All? Decentralization, Corruption, and the Monitoring of Bureaucrats
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021
The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316367
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The impact of fiscal decentralization on accountability, economic freedom, and political and civil liberties in the Americas
Bojanic, Antonio - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20
This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization on accountability, economic freedom, and political and civil … liberties in the Americas. The findings indicate that decentralization initially hampers but eventually enhances accountability … a more inclusive, participatory government. The impact of fiscal decentralization on economic freedom, however, runs …
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The Geography of Oversight
Turner, Sidney C. - 2012
A small but growing body of empirical research underscores the relationship between a city's status as a political capital and its status within an urban hierarchy. Both theoretical and empirical work has attributed this to the agglomeration effects of government activity in the capital. The...
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Marginal Benefits? Electoral Geography and Economic Outcomes
Wokker, Chris - 2019
I exploit a large natural experiment in Australia that saw the House of Representatives expand from 125 districts to 148 districts. This required substantial changes to electoral boundaries, which, for the first time, were determined by a body that was not subject to ministerial discretion. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858209
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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009
pricipal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining … different degrees. This study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization …. - Federalism ; decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; economic effects of constitutions ; constitutional economics …
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