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Political competition and economic performance evidence from the Italian regions

Padovano, Fabio; Ricciuti, Roberto - In: Public choice 138 (2009) 3/4, pp. 263-277

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Fiscal federalism in Nigeria : implication for growth

Onwioduokit, Emmanuel Ating; Esu, Godwin Essang - In: West African journal of monetary and economic integration 18 (2018) 2, pp. 70-95

Nigeria has been a federation before 1963. This was expected to foster speedy growth and development, but military … terms of its impact on economic growth, so as to uphold or refute the claims of the defects in the present status quo. Time … actually foster economic growth, but this growth may have been inhibited by corruption, ineffective leadership, unconducive …

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : revised estimates for 120 countries

Schneider, Friedrich; Bühn, Andreas - 2009 - Rev.

Estimations of the shadow economies for 120 countries, including developing, Eastern Europe and Central Asian and high income OECD countries over 1999 to 2006 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2004/05 in 76 developing countries is 35.5%, in...

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Fiscal decentralisation and economic development in selected unitary European countries

Szarowská, Irena - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 9 (2014) 1, pp. 22-40

The article provides direct empirical evidence on fiscal decentralisation and economic development in selected European countries in a period 1995-2012. The research (based on data taken from OECD Fiscal Decentralisation Database and OECD) is performed on a panel, which contains 17 unitary...

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Fiscal decentralization, economic growth and human resource development in Nigeria : Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach

Udoh, Elijah; Afangideh, Udoma J.; Udeaja, Elias A. - In: CBN journal of applied statistics 6 (2015) 1, pp. 69-93

decentralization supportive of economic growth and human resource development. …

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Fiscal decentralization and economic growth : empirical evidence from European countries

Mladenovska, Suzana Makreshanska; Tashevska, Biljana - In: Economy, business & development : an international journal 5 (2024) 1, pp. 44-56

In this paper we empirically investigate the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth in the … government expenditures and revenues has a favorable impact on economic growth in the European countries and also that revenue … decentralization is shown to be more effective than expenditure decentralization in terms of stimulating economic growth. Further, our …

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The political economy of clientelism

Robinson, James Alan; Verdier, Thierry - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 115 (2013) 2, pp. 260-291

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A dynamic theory of electoral competition

Battaglini, Marco - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 9 (2014) 2, pp. 515-554

We present a dynamic theory of electoral competition to study the determinants of fiscal policy. In each period, two parties choose electoral platforms to maximize the expected number of elected representatives. The platforms include public expenditure, redistributive transfers, the tax rate and...

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A real or a marginal trend in participatory budgets in local governments

Filipiak, Beata Zofia; Dylewski, Marek - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 14 (2018) 4, pp. 12-21

The purpose of the article is analysis of participatory budgets as a tool for shaping decisions of local communities on the use of public funds. The authors ask the question of whether the current practice of using the participatory budget is actually a growing trend in local government finances...

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Determinants of public indebtedness in European Union countries

Kudła, Janusz - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 14 (2018) 3, pp. 76-86

primary balance, interest-rate-growth-differential and the change of government assets. Therefore, it seems reasonable to … estimate the dynamics of these three values to find the variables crucial for limiting the growth of public debt. Three groups … for the 1995-2015 period for 27 EU countries. Dependent variables included: primary balance, interest-rate-growth …

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