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Fiscal decentralization and development : how crucial is local politics?

Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2010

Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …

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Status quo on fiscal decentralisation in Mongolia

Lkhagvadorj, Ariunaa - 2007

This paper gives a review on the theoretical foundation for fiscal decentralisation and a status quo analysis of the intergovernmental relations in Mongolia. It consists of two parts. Part I briefly reviews the theories of fiscal decentralisation and its impact on the nations’ welfare...

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The Economics of Federalism

Ribstein, Larry E. - 2006

This is the introductory essay for the Economics of Federalism, a book edited by the authors and forthcoming in Edward Elgar Publishing's ECONOMIC APPROACHES TO LAW series. This essay discusses the major issues and theories concerning federal political systems, which we define as systems that...

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The Decentralization of Tax Powers in Federal Entities in Mexico, 2005 - 2010

Medel-Ramírez, Carlos - 2018

of the decentralization of taxation powers in the Mexican federal entities in the period 2005 to 2010? The thesis that … will be sustained throughout the trial is that progress has been made in terms of decentralization of spending in the …

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Tax Decentralization Notwithstanding Regional Disparities

Bellofatto, Antonio; Besfamille, Martin - 2019

In assessing the desirability for tax decentralization reforms, a dilemma between efficiency and redistribution emerges …, decentralization curbs incentives for excessive subnational spending and enhances fiscal discipline, but may also widen interregional … the optimal degree of fiscal decentralization. We find that tax decentralization can be optimal even under Rawlsian social …

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Decentralized Leadership

Delfino Silva, Emilson - 2016

This paper studies the efficiency of decentralized leadership in federations where selfish regional governments provide regional and federal public goods and the benevolent central government implements interregional earmarked and income transfers. Without residential mobility, unlimited...

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Fiscal Decentralization - A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Reingewertz, Yaniv - 2014

We survey the empirical literature on fiscal decentralization (FD) and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of … conclude that there is no general answer regarding the net effect of FD. Fiscal decentralization reforms have to consider a …

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Partial Fiscal Decentralization and Sub-National Government Fiscal Discipline : Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries

Asatryan, Zareh - 2015

line with the hypothesis that greater revenue decentralization (measured as sub-national governments' share of own source …

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Fiscal Decentralization and the Efficiency of Public Service Delivery

Sow, Moussé - 2015

This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It uses a … stochastic frontier method to estimate time-varying efficiency coefficients and analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization on … those efficiency coefficients. The findings indicate that fiscal decentralization can improve the efficiency of public …

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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization : A Survey

Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2015

In this paper we offer a comprehensive and updated review of the impact of fiscal decentralization on the economy … decentralization: its proper measurement and the potential endogeneity of fiscal decentralization with many of the variables of … decentralization on a relevant list of socio-economic variables. The impact of fiscal decentralization reforms on political …

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