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This paper describes and discusses the division of tasks between Dutch central and local government and their financing in view of economic theory. The paper starts with an overview of the first and second generation theories of fiscal decentralisation. This theoretical perspective is used for...
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Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual … study the relative influences of different types of decentralization, including fiscal decentralization, administrative … decentralization, federalism, and aggregate decentralization. Our results show that fiscal and administrative decentralization are …
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The paper discusses the reasons and possible resolutions of the contradictions in the Hungarian local government system, and proposes methods to resolve them. The nature of the Hungarian system cannot be described by classical normative theories of fiscal federalism. The operation of Hungarian...
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decentralization systems by examining the sequencing and economic principles underlying revenue and expenditure assignments, the use of …
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We can enhance development by making it easier for people to “vote with their feet” between jurisdictions. Few, if any, policy reforms can achieve such enormous increases in economic growth and opportunity. Foot voting is, in several crucial respects, a better mechanism of political...
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This study examines long run and causal relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic development in … causality test showed a unidirectional causality run from economic development to fiscal decentralization i.e. economic … development granger causes fiscal decentralization (only sub-national revenue decentralization ratio) in Nigeria. By implication …
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The world economy and societies are going through a digital transformation that goes well beyond computerisation and use of information and telecommunications technologies. This transformation is creating opportunities and challenges for all levels of government in the areas of tax and...
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The Coronavirus pandemic has put extreme pressure on public health services, often delivered at the local and regional levels of government. The paper focuses on how countries made changes to the configuration of federalism during the first wave of the pandemic. These changes typically have...
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