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Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana

Otoo, Isaac; Danquah, Michael - 2021

investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using … study. The results with regard to our two indicators of fiscal decentralization indicate that fiscal autonomy proxied by …

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Fiscal decentralization, regional disparity, and the role of corruption

Nirola, Nupur; Sahu, Sohini; Choudhury, Atrayee - 2021

between fiscal decentralization and regional income disparities. Fiscal decentralization may affect regional disparities via … institutions, in the form of anti-corruption efforts by the states, interact with fiscal decentralization in impacting divergence … across states of India. We find that fiscal decentralization reduces the disparity across states, and the effect of fiscal …

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Meeting the Challenges of Decentralisation in France

Jamet, Stéphanie - 2007

Despite France’s previously well-deserved reputation as a highly centralised state, a significant number of responsibilities have been devolved to regional and local government over the past two decades. The process has not been easy. The extremely large number of very small municipalities...

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Enhancing administrative and fiscal decentralisation in the Czech Republic

Sila, Urban; De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2020

There is considerable regional variation in incomes and poverty in the Czech Republic and gaps have grown over time. With the highest number of municipalities per head in the OECD, subnational government is very fragmented and the resulting lack of capacity at the local level reduces the quality...

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Fiscal decentralization and electoral participation : analyzing districts in Indonesia

Farah, Alfa - 2019

Many countries have adopted decentralization policies in order to strengthen democratic governance. Nevertheless …, empirical literature on whether decentralization actually strengthens democratic governance is relatively limited when compared … to empirical literature on the impact of decentralization on a wide array of fiscal or economic variables. Therefore …

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Local government financing during the electoral business cycle : analysing the role of intergovernmental political alignment on municipality budgets in Greece

Kitsos, Anastasios; Proestakis, Antonios - 2018

This paper examines the role of political alignment and the electoral business cycle on municipality revenues in Greece for the period 2003-2010. A panel dataset combining local and national elections with local budgets is used to run a fixed-effects econometric model. The findings suggest that...

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Partial fiscal decentralization and local government spending policy

Kopańska, Agnieszka - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 14 (2018) 3, pp. 21-31

The aim of this paper is to analyze how limits in revenue and spending autonomy of sub-sovereign governments influence their decisions. Revenue and spending autonomy indicators for Polish towns were established and used in analysis on school education expenditures during 2003–2016. The...

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The flypaper effect in Mexican local government

Sour, Laura - In: Estudios Económicos 28 (2013) 1, pp. 165-186

In this paper we present evidence of the flypaper effect on unconditional transfers in the Mexican municipalities during the 1990 to 2007 period. Using panel data, we also confirm an asymmetric effect. That is, authorities increase expenditures by a greater amount in response to an increase in...

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Vertical Effects of Fiscal Rules - The Swiss Experience

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P. - CESifo - 2014

) provides little evidence that budget constraints at the cantonal level affect municipal finances and fiscal decentralization …

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Do local governments do it better? Analysis of time performance in the execution of public works

Guccio, Calogero; Pignataro, Giacomo; Rizzo, Ilde - In: European Journal of Political Economy 34 (2014) C, pp. 237-252

decentralization matters in the execution of public works and for discussing the policy implications in terms of the organisation of …

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