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Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction : A Conceptual Framework for the Economic Impact

Steiner, Susan - 2014

This paper contributes to providing insights into the impact of decentralisation on poverty. It starts out with an … overview of which role decentralisation plays in strategies and policies for poverty eradication and derives economic and …. It shows that decentralisation cannot only influence poverty by assigning expenditure responsibility to lower levels of …

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Governance and Poverty Reduction : Evidence from Newly Decentralized Indonesia

Sumarto, Sudarno; Suryahadi, Asep; Arifianto, Alexander R. - 2014

This study is the first attempt to systematically examine the impact of bad governance practices in Indonesia on poverty reduction. Indonesia is a country that has endured bad governance for a long period, but has also sustained significant poverty reduction. Prior to the onset of the economic...

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Regional Impact Analyses and the Appropriate Treatment of public budget constraints under devolution: An application to Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

Hermannsson, Kristinn; Lisenkova, Katerina; McGregor, … - 2010

There have been numerous studies of the "impact" of HEIs on their host regions. These have typically focused on the demand for goods and services in the host region. The best of these studies employ regional input-output analyses. However, there has developed a "policy scepticism" about the...

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Effective environmental protection in the context of government decentralization

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011

China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the economic reforms over the past three decades. This devolution of decision-making to local levels and enterprises has placed environmental stewardship in the hands of local...

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Social Infrastructure Finance and Institutional Investors. A Global Perspective

Inderst, Georg - 2020

Social infrastructure has endured a long period of neglect in most developed and emerging countries, with chronic underinvestment exposed by the coronavirus crisis 2020. The financial crisis 2007/08 led to a slow revival of economic infrastructure policies, and a growing involvement of...

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Returns to School Spending in Rural America: Evidence from Wisconsin's Sparsity Aid Program

Acton, Riley; Orr, Cody; Rogers, Salem - 2023

We study the effects of increased school spending in rural American school districts by leveraging the introduction and subsequent expansion of Wisconsin's Sparsity Aid Program. We find that the program, which provides additional state funding to small and isolated school districts, increased...

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Vocational schools as an instrument of interregional competition: Empirical evidence from German counties

Bischoff, Ivo; Hauschildt, Julia - 2017

The German apprenticeship system is widely known throughout the world. We analyze expenditures on vocational schools on county level using data from 213 West-German counties between 2001 and 2006. We use spatial econometrics to test for spatial correlation in counties' expenditure on vocational...

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Social Infrastructure Finance and Institutional Investors. A Global Perspective

Inderst, Georg - 2020

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Can Power Be Restored in the Electric City? A Case Study of Scranton, Pennsylvania

Norcross, Eileen - 2018

Once a robust producer of coal, iron, and steel, Scranton, Pennsylvania, is perilously close to financial insolvency. A 75-year population decline has eroded its tax base, and city officials have been unable to control costs — a combination that threatens to bankrupt the city. Scranton was...

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Aging and Public Financing Costs : Evidence from U.S. Municipal Bond Markets

Butler, Alexander W. - 2020

We examine the impact of population aging on municipal access to credit. A one standard deviation increase in a state's population age leads to a 23 basis point increase in municipal bond issue spread. Three mechanisms drive this effect: income tax revenue, healthcare liabilities, and pension...

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