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The Effectiveness of Public Expenditure in Portugal
Bronchi, Chiara - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003
Over the past decade, Portugal has experienced imbalances and inefficiencies in the public sector that have impeded … better economic performance. Though Portugal’s total spending as a proportion of GDP is somewhat below the EU average, the … develop accruals-based ... L'efficacité des dépenses publiques au Portugal<BR><P>Au cours de la décennie écoulée, le Portugal …
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Does aid improve public service delivery?
Wolf, Susanna - 2007
The expected increase in aid to Africa will put a big challenge for public service delivery. Using a simultaneous equation model, this paper provides an analysis of the effects of the volume and volatility of aid on education, health, water and sanitation outcomes, taking also into account the...
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Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Expenditure : An Empirical Study
Winner, Hannes - 2012
This paper investigates whether fiscal competition affects the structure of public spending, where theory predicts a shift from residential public goods to industrial public goods. We propose an empirical model that specifically accounts for the strategic nature and endogeneity of fiscal...
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COP28 and environmental federalism : empirical evidence from an emerging economy, India
Chakraborty, Lekha; Kaur, Amandeep; Mohanty, Ranjan Kumar; … - 2024
Against the backdrop of COP28, this paper investigates the impact of intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IGFT) on climate change commitments in India. Within the analytical framework of environmental federalism, we tested the evidence for the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) using a panel model...
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Legislative term limits and state aid to local governments
Yakovlev, Pavel; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Lewis, William P. - 2012
We estimate the effect of legislative term limits on various categories of state government spending using the most recent panel of 47 states from 1972 to 2005. Besides the usual economic, political, fiscal and demographic factors, we also control for the state tax and expenditure limitations....
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Horizontal Federalism
Erbsen, Allan - 2009
This Article constructs frameworks for analyzing federalism's undertheorized horizontal dimension. Discussions of federalism generally focus on the hierarchical (or vertical) allocation of power between the national and state governments while overlooking the horizontal allocation of power among...
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Special Interest Groups and the Allocation of Public Funds
Singhal, Monica - 2006
A long-standing puzzle in the fiscal federalism literature is the empirical non-equivalence in government spending from grants and other income. I propose a fully rational model in which violations of fungibility arise from dynamic interactions between politicians and interest groups with the...
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Does size matter? The productivity of government : expenditures and the size of states : evidence from India
Haasnoot, Cornelis W. - 2016
Some politicians argue for the splitting and combining of states to increase government productivity, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence on the optimal size of a state. Using data from Indian states, I test a model of the optimal size of the state. I find that size and preference...
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Fiscal Decentralization and Public Sector Efficiency : Evidence from OECD Countries
Adam, Antonis - 2008
This paper attempts to identify the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector efficiency (PSE). We employ data envelopment analysis on a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1970-2000 to construct two alternative PSE indicators that reflect the governmental goals of economic...
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Enhancing Expenditure Control with a Decentralised Public Sector in Denmark
Daugaard, Steen - 2002
This paper analyses of some the key aspects of public expenditure policy in Denmark. The public expenditure to GDP ratio has abated markedly since the mid-1990s, reflecting both cyclical gains and the return on structural reforms. Nevertheless, the underlying upward pressure on government...
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