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The effects of term limits and yardstick competition on local government provision of health insurance and other public services : the Philippine case
Capuno, Joseph J.; Quimbo, Stella A.; Kraft, Aleli D.; … - 2012
governments ; term limits ; yardstick competition ; health insurance ; poor ; Philippines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490697
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Perks and public provisions: Effects of yardstick competition on local government fiscal behavior in the Philippines
Capuno, Joseph J.; Quimbo, Stella A.; Kraft, Aleli D.; … - 2012
Using a panel dataset from cities and municipalities in the Philippines in 2001, 2004 and 2007, we investigate whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333538
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The effects of term limits and yardstick competition on local government provision of health insurance and other public services: The Philippine case
Capuno, Joseph J.; Quimbo, Stella A.; Kraft, Aleli D.; … - 2012
We investigate the effects of two accountability measures on the decisions of the local governments under decentralization. Using a panel of Philippine municipalities and cities in three election years, we find that term limits have negative but weak effects on the provision of health insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333528
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Performance rating and yardstick competition in social service provision : presented at TAPES Conference on Fiscal Federalism, May 2004
Revelli, Federico - 2004
This paper investigates whether national evaluation of decentralised government performance tends, by lessening local information spill-overs, to reduce the scope for local performance comparisons and consequently to lower the extent of spatial auto-correlation among local government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450696
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Performance Rating and Yardstick Competition in Social Service Provision
Revelli, Federico - 2021
This paper investigates whether national evaluation of decentralised government performance tends, by lessening local information spill-overs, to reduce the scope for local performance comparisons and consequently to lower the extent of spatial auto-correlation among local government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319005
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The effects of term limits and yardstick competition on local government provision of health insurance and other public services : The Philippine case
Capuno, Joseph J.; Quimbo, Stella A.; Kraft, Aleli D.; … - School of Economics, University of the Philippines at … - 2012
We investigate the effects of two accountability measures on the decisions of the local governments under decentralization. Using a panel of Philippine municipalities and cities in three election years, we find that term limits have negative but weak effects on the provision of health insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652324
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Perks and public provisions : Effects of yardstick competition on local government fiscal behavior in the Philippines
Capuno, Joseph J.; Quimbo, Stella A.; Kraft, Aleli D.; … - School of Economics, University of the Philippines at … - 2012
Using a panel dataset from cities and municipalities in the Philippines in 2001, 2004 and 2007, we investigate whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652333
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421297
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Elections and externalities of health expenditures : spatial patterns and opportunism in the local budget allocation
Ferreira, Jorge Leandro Delconte; Alves, Alexandre; … - 2016
In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that policy makers' choices concerning health spent at the local level are spatially correlated and electorally oriented. We check the influence of a set of demographic, electoral and economic determinants of public health activity. We performed a spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491270
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Do Local Governments Interact Fiscally with Their Neighbors in a Devolved Health Care System – A Spatial Analysis of the Philippines?
Kelekar, Uma - 2011
The aim of this research is to better understand the effects of a decentralized health system of the Philippines on …. Within the context of the Philippines’ decentralized health system and health externalities that arise at the individual … government data for the Philippines. Competition for health resources including doctors and drugs, thereby bidding up the costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014188566