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Improving service delivery through decentralization : a challenge for Asia
Brosio, Giorgio - 2014
This paper assesses how decentralization can contribute, if proper political and fiscal institutions are present, to … improving service delivery in Asia. In other words, decentralization is an opportunity and a challenge at the same time. The … issues leading to "partial decentralization" that is common to most models. Consideration is also given to the emerging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336939
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Decentralization and Public Service Delivery in Asia
Brosio, Giorgio - 2014
This paper assesses how decentralization can contribute, if proper political and fiscal institutions are present, to … improving service delivery in Asia. In other words, decentralization is an opportunity and a challenge at the same time. The … issues leading to "partial decentralization" that is common to most models. Consideration is also given to the emerging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507421
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Local public finances and municipal reform in Finland
André, Christophe; García, Clara - 2014
Finnish municipalities enjoy ample fiscal autonomy and provide or arrange the provision of a large share of public services. In recent years, their spending and debt has been increasing steadily, especially because of population ageing and increases in the cost of health care and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375402
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Fiscal Decentralisation and the Quality of Public Services in Russian Regions
Freinkman, Lev - 2014
The paper provides empirical analysis of the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and the quality of public services in the Russian regions. The analysis suggests that fiscal decentralisation has no significant effect on the key inputs into secondary education, such as schools,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070314
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Income Inequality, Fiscal Decentralization and Transfer Dependency
Goerl, Caroline-Antonia - 2014
on fiscal decentralization suggesting that redistribution is most effectively carried out at sub-central levels of … that the decentralization of government expenditure can help achieve a more equal distribution of income. However, several … conditions need to be fulfilled: i) the government sector needs to be sufficiently large, ii) decentralization should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053956
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545693
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The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Publicly Provided Services and Labor Markets
Bianchi, Nicola; Giorcelli, Michela; Martino, Enrica Maria - 2021
This paper studies how fiscal decentralization affects local services. It explores a 1993 reform that increased the … identification leverages cross-municipal variation in the degree of decentralization that stems from bombings during WWII …. Decentralization reduced local spending but expanded municipal services, such as nursery schools. These effects are larger in areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250403
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967332
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Dress-Up Contest : A Dark Side of Fiscal Decentralization
Wang, Ruixin; Wang, Wendun - 2013
A 'dress-up contest' is a competition for the best public image, and fiscal decentralisation can lead to such contests between local governments. In this paper we model the dress-up contest and investigate how it a effects social welfare. We show that yardstick competition (due to fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014152744
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Fiscal Decentralization Improves Social Outcomes When Countries Have Good Governance
Nakatani, Ryota; Zhang, Qianqian; Garcia Valdes, Isaura - 2022
Does fiscal decentralization improve health and educational outcomes? Does this improvement depend on the quality of … governance? How do fiscal decentralization and governance interact? We answer these questions through an instrumental variable … Tobit analysis of cross-country panel data. We find negative effects of fiscal decentralization on health outcomes, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082215