expenditures. JEL Codes: H50; H54; H72; C13 Keywords: Public Expenditures; Cointegration; Decentralization …

, Local Government, debt, decentralization. …

process of employment and population decentralization. Gordon and Richardson (1996) argued that polycentricity is just an … context of employment and population decentralization, transport infrastructure might be reinforcing its location role and a …

Globalization of economic activities and decentralization of government organization are occurring simultaneously. We … consider the implications of government decentralization for intra-national and international trade. Decentralization can … to inbound foreign direct investment suggest a stronger positive effect of decentralization on imports relative to …

Decentralization can be generally described as a process in which selected functions are assigned to sub-national units …. The literature identifies number of positive consequences of decentralization which all lead to better satisfaction of … citizens? needs for public services. Although decentralization process in Croatia started more than 10 years ago, it still has …

The relationship between decentralization and the quality of governments is one of the core issues of decentralization … decentralization is that it will improve the accountability and responsiveness of government by altering its structure so as to … heterogeneity both in the quality of government as well as in the degree of decentralization. As for the former, variability within …

, utilization patters in the public and private sector, and private health spending in the four years after decentralization. We …

decentralization should increase electoral control due to the fact that under centralization the incumbent only needs to please the … derived from bundling the provision of both types of public goods, whereas under decentralization there are potential …