Decentralization and Health: Case Studies of Kenya, Pakistan, and the Philippines [PDF]
, 2016 Decentralization, defined by the World Bank (2001) as, “the transfer of authority and responsibility for public functions from the central government to intermediate and local governments or quasi-‐independent government organizations and/or the private
Bigdeli, PhD, Maryam +2 more
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Politics Related to the Strategy for Public Health Decentralization in Romania
Acta Universitatis Danubius: Administratio, 2010 The article “Policy proposals for public health decentralization in Romania” presents a briefing of the conceptual framework for public health (PH) decentralization and formulates certain recommendations regarding policy alternatives for PH ...
Valentina Alina DOBREA
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How does fiscal decentralization affect aggregate, national, and subnational government size? [PDF]
Beyond conducting the usual regression analysis of the relationship between fiscal decentralization and aggregate government size (national and subnational combined), this paper makes the first attempt to examine how different fiscal decentralization ...
Heng-fu Zou, Jing Jin
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Decentralization as Ability to Adapt [PDF]
, 1996 The issues of centralization and decentralization are not new in the history of economic and social theory, but lessons from the past tend to be forgotten. I will here discuss some insights of one of the greatest economic and social theorists of this century, F.A. Hayek. Until not so long ago, Hayek's work was almost completely unknown, and the few who
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"Fiscal Decentralization, Commitment and Regional Inequality: Evidence from State-level Cross-sectional Data for the United States" [PDF]
While conventional approaches to fiscal decentralization suggest that decentralization lowers the power of redistribution among regions, recent theories argue that fiscal decentralization works as a commitment device.
Masayo Sakata, Nobuo Akai
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Flight to the Fringes: An Empirical Study of Office Decentralization in Atlanta, Georgia [PDF]
, 1971 Fred A. Tarpley +2 more
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New Evidence on Fiscal Decentralization and the Size of Government [PDF]
This paper adds to the literature by utilizing improved data on tax revenue decentralization to re-examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and the size of government.
Jon H. Fiva
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An iterative coordination approach to decentralized decision problems [PDF]
, 1978 Alan J. Laub, F. Bailey
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Public Sector Decentralization: Measurement Concepts and Recent International Trends [PDF]
This paper deals with the problems encountered in defining and measuring the degree of fiscal decentralization. Drawing on a recent analytical framework of the OECD, different measures of fiscal autonomy and revenue decentralization are presented which ...
Stegarescu, Dan
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