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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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The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2014

We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …

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Decentralisation in the health sector and responsibilities across levels of government : impact on spending decisions and the budget

James, Chris; Beazley, Ivor; Penn, Caroline; Philips, Leah - In: OECD journal on budgeting 19 (2019) 3, pp. 11-40

This article sheds light on the role of subnational governments in health systems across OECD countries. The views in this article show a move away from traditional measures of decentralisation, such as the share of subnational government expenditure of total expenditure, to measures capturing a...

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Synthesising good practices in fiscal federalism : key recommendations from 15 years of country surveys

Forman, Kass; Dougherty, Sean M.; Blöchliger, Hansjörg - 2020

The design of intergovernmental fiscal relations can help to ensure that tax and spending powers are assigned in a way to promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Decentralisation can enable sub-central governments to provide better public services for households and firms, while it...

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Decentralisation to promote Regional Development in Indonesia

Vujanovic, Petar Declan - 2017

In 1998 Indonesia embarked on an ambitious course of decentralisation. Over a period of a few years, facilitated by financial transfers from the central government, responsibility for many public services and administrative tasks were devolved to local authorities. This process is continuing....

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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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Two Decades of Fiscal Decentralization : Implications on the Regional Development in Indonesia

Yasin, Mohammad Zeqi; Landiyanto, Erlangga Agustino; … - 2022

The implementation of fiscal decentralization in the last two decades has produced various findings: positive and … negative. Several studies have evaluated fiscal decentralization as an ideal system so that development goals can be accustomed … services compared to the central government. However, other studies consider that the fiscal decentralization that started in …

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Fiscal decentralization and regional disparity: Evidence from cross-section and panel data

Lessmann, Christian - 2009

The advantages and disadvantages of public sector decentralization are widely discussed in economics and political … science. Some authors argue that decentralization leads to an optimal provision of public services and promotes economic … studies the impact of fiscal decentralization on regional disparities. We find that a higher degree of decentralization is …

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Dezentrale Energiepolitik: eine fiskalföderalistische Perspektive für den deutschen Stromsektor

Gawel, Erik; Strunz, Sebastian - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 85 (2016) 4, pp. 29-40

decentralization and centralization. In particular, the paper weighs the benefits of centralization against the benefits of … decentralized policy experimentation. Meanwhile, the exact amount of (de)centralization proves elusive. In consequence, the national … level may provide the best option to pragmatically balancing the benefits of both centralization and decentralization. …

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Citizen Preferences and the Architecture of Government

Bourgeon, Jean-Marc; Breuillé, Marie-Laure - 2018

We consider a country whose government provides a bundle of goods and services through a multi-tier administrative organization. We compare the optimal architectures of public governance (i.e. the division of the state into several tiers, the distribution of services among them, their number of...

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