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How Does Fiscal Decentralization Affect Within-Regional Disparities in Well-Being? Evidence from Health Inequalities in Italy

Di Novi, Cinzia - 2015

This paper aims at investigating empirically the impact of fiscal decentralization reforms on inequality in well … size of the tax base across Regions, we find that fiscal decentralization processes that attribute a greater tax power to … into account the specific features of the context where the decentralization of power is implemented …

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Strategic Inefficient Decentralization : Local and Regional Devolution as Substitutes

Ricart-Huguet, Joan; Sellars, Emily - 2021

Most contemporary decentralization has occurred at the local (district) rather than regional (provincial) level. Why … government in favor decentralizing to smaller, more fragmented units. Regional decentralization can better take advantage of … effectively. Central authorities may therefore have an incentive to forgo the welfare benefits of regional decentralization in …

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Does fiscal decentralization affect regional disparities in health? : quasi-experimental evidence from Italy

Di Novi, Cinzia; Piacenza, Massimiliano; Robone, Silvana; … - 2019

Recent theories on fiscal decentralization support the view that sub-national governments who finance a larger share of …-experimental evidence on the impact of fiscal decentralization on health disparities between- and within-regions. Our findings, robust to a … number of robustness checks, support the view that fiscal decentralization does not impact on between-regional inequalities …

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Enhancing governance in Thailand

Mohd Arif, Abu Zeid; Fleischer, Lara; Bogiatzis, Adam; … - 2018

The Peace pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development encompasses a diverse range of issues including stability and effective governance. Reforming the public sector is high on the government’s agenda, but involves a number of challenges: the gap between planning and implementation...

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Does fiscal decentralization help Indonesia avoid the middle-income trap?

Tirtosuharto, Darius - 2017

This paper focuses on the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of fiscal resources at the regional level … implementation of decentralization is not only aimed at increasing fiscal capacity and efficiency, but also at enhancing … confirms that the degree of fiscal decentralization is the key determinant of state fiscal efficiency. Hence, despite the …

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Decentralized Leadership

Delfino Silva, Emilson - 2016

This paper studies the efficiency of decentralized leadership in federations where selfish regional governments provide regional and federal public goods and the benevolent central government implements interregional earmarked and income transfers. Without residential mobility, unlimited...

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Cooperation Among Local Councils for the Provision of Public Goods

Bartolini, David; Fiorillo, Fabio - 2011

In order to provide local public goods, municipalities can cooperate and exploit economies of scale and scope. We present an analytical model of the costs and benefits of two such forms of cooperation: Consortia and Unions. We find that the efficiency of these two forms of cooperation depends on...

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Decentralisation, Regulatory Burden and Economic Development in Spain

Marcos, Francisco; Santaló, Juan; Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2007

One of the contributions of the Chicago School to economic theory is that of underlining the importance of compliance costs on entrepreneurial activity and economic growth. From a business perspective, complying with general regulations and administrative red tape is a costly burden that may...

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Caperchione, Eugenio; Zuffada, Elena - 2003

Building partnerships is becoming an important issue at the local level of government in many countries. Different experiences can be traced throughout Europe, as well as in other OECD countries. This is because partnerships, especially when the size of the single local government is small, can...

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Neue Regionalpolitik durch Stärkung dezentraler Entwicklungsimpulse

Rosenfeld, Martin T. W.; Mauch, Steffen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 99 (2019), pp. 80-84

and implement their own strategies for catching up. The decentralization processes is discussed. …

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