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Do External Grants to District Governments Discourage Own Revenue Generation? A Look at Local Public Finance Dynamics in Ghana
Mogues, Tewodaj; Benin, Samuel - In: World Development 40 (2012) 5, pp. 1054-1067
Using rich panel data on all of Ghana’s districts’ local public finances over 11 years, this paper investigates the way that intergovernmental and other transfers to local governments affect local governments’ incentives to collect internally generated revenues and funds (IGF). We find...
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Horizontal devolution : have the finance commissions delivered?
Krishan, P. K. V.; Pavneet Singh - In: IIMB management review 33 (2021) 2, pp. 105-118
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Decentralization and rural service delivery in Uganda:
Bashaasha, Bernard; Mangheni, Margaret Najjingo; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
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Decentralization and public service delivery in Nigeria:
Okojie, Christiana - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
that rural areas have sizes below this cut-off (Onokerhoraye 1984). Decentralization has become a key issue in development … policy in the last two decades. Decentralization is a process of transitioning from a governance structure in which power is …
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Decentralization and local public services in Ghana: Do geography and ethnic diversity matter?
Akramov, Kamiljon T.; Asante, Felix Ankomah - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"This paper explores disparities in local public service provision between decentralized districts in Ghana using district- and household-level data. The empirical results show that districts' geographic locations play a major role in shaping disparities in access to local public services in...
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Local government fragmentation and the local public sector : a panel data analysis
Goodman, Christopher B. - In: Public finance review : PFR 43 (2015) 1, pp. 82-107
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The prerequisites of social development when planning for decentralization
Dumitrică, Cătălin Daniel; Biţoiu, Teodora I.; … - In: Theoretical and applied economics : GAER review 23 (2016) 2, pp. 5-16
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Municipal bonds as new instrument for enhancing local economic development in Republic of Serbia
Vučetić, Dejan; Jovanović, Miloš - In: Facta Universitatis / Series economics and organization … 10 (2013) 2, pp. 101-116
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An outline of the new government policy for Russian cities and urban agglomerations
Popov, R. A.; Puzanov, A. S.; Polidi, T. D. - In: Problems of economic transition 62 (2020) 7/9, pp. 622-634
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Local governments and economic freedom : a test of the Leviathan hypothesis
Millsap, Adam A.; Hobbs, Bradley K.; Stansel, Dean - In: Public finance review : PFR 47 (2019) 3, pp. 493-529
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