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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 …
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This paper provides an empirical analysis on the question whether equalization payments across regions and transfers from the central government stimulate regional growth or impede it. Using a panel of 22 French regions from 2002 to 2008, we find that regional economic growth is positively...
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For almost two decades, starting from the early ‘90s, Italy experienced the strongest wave of decentralization reforms … situation of "fiscal federalism" in Italy before the crisis, summarizing the decentralization process in the ‘90s, its …
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This paper is intended to provide an assessment of the impact of the silent revolution (decentralization reforms) of … dimensions of decentralization and localization. These sub-indexes are aggregated and adjusted for heterogeneity to develop an …
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We consider a country whose government provides a bundle of goods and services through a multi-tier administrative organization. We compare the optimal architectures of public governance (i.e. the division of the state into several tiers, the distribution of services among them, their number of...
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: Centralization in Turkey and Federalism in Argentina and, in general, studied the decentralization impact of both the systems on …, this index was compared with the fiscal resources allocation (FRA), used as a proxy of fiscal decentralization in an …
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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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This paper explores the nuanced relationship between fiscal decentralization and fiscal sustainability. Employing panel … data analyses, it scrutinizes how decentralization influences fiscal discipline across different governmental levels …. Results for 185 countries show that while tax decentralization often hampers the degree of fiscal responsiveness, potentially …
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decentralization context for the success of participatory governance. …
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, fiscal grants systems under decentralization may also have result in the same. We investigate this issue to identify the …
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