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, especially looking at outsourcing and decentralization. We test a number of hypotheses related to the outsourcing and … decentralization effects on public sector expenditure and employees through an econometric analysis using a panel data model for … decentralization tends to decrease the size of general government, particularly in the long-run. …
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The structure of China’s current governance bears prominent features of fiscal decentralization. The supply of … decentralization process has taken place. Using China’s provincial panel data, we examine the determinants of healthcare resource … supply while paying particular attention to the role of fiscal decentralization. We find that the supply of healthcare …
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principal may restrict attention to outsourcing/decentralization without any loss of generality. Moreover, situations in which …
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have allowed the legislature to build the basis for a effective decentralization in the region. The new law sets the … new law on the region which is assumed to bring more decentralization, does affect profoundly the relationship between the …
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have allowed the legislature to build the basis for a effective decentralization in the region. The new law sets the … new law on the region which is assumed to bring more decentralization, does affect profoundly the relationship between the …
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This article examines the institutional and individual determinants of the correct allocation of political responsibilities in a decentralized country such as Spain. It also deals with the learning process of individuals over time. Our results show that the allocation of powers is more...
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high decentralization and substantial intergovernmental transfer. The highly decentralized and hierarchical administrative …
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the relationship between decentralization and mineral resource conflict in the Philippines. Here, efforts to decentralize … institutional struggles are local elected politicians, which raises important concerns over elite capture of the decentralization …
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This study discusses the main problems in assessing overall spending efficiency of local governments and presents an application of non-parametric techniques (DEA) to the activities carried out by Italian municipalities. The analysis relies on a sample of 262 municipalities in the Province of...
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This paper deals with the open issue about the choice between a centralized versus a decentralized public procurement strategy. Using a unique dataset on tender prices of selected drugs for hospital usage awarded by a sample of 52 Italian local health service providers (ASLs) between 2009 and...
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