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2023
Abstract Chapter 2 provides an overview of previous research on taxation, state capacity, and accountability and argues the need for a new theory. Existing literature is primarily based on the experience of European state development, in which the threat of war drove state development.
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Abstract Chapter 2 provides an overview of previous research on taxation, state capacity, and accountability and argues the need for a new theory. Existing literature is primarily based on the experience of European state development, in which the threat of war drove state development.
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War, Credit, and Fiscal Capacity
2022This chapter tackles the short- and long-term repercussions of external capital access on fiscal capacity, which is the ability to raise taxes. It also cites that war finance is consequential for state building. Moreover, access to external finance during wartime in the Bond Era decreased the likelihood of strengthening fiscal capacity.
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Fiscal Capacity
International Journal of Public Administration, 2016ABSTRACTAn intergovernmental fiscal transfer is an instrument used by governments to equalize fiscal capacity. However, with the large discrepancies in fiscal capacity among Local Authorities (LAs) in Kenya, it is evident that the intention of the instrument has not been met.
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Marrying Fiscal Rules & Investment: A Central Fiscal Capacity for Europe
SSRN Electronic JournalThe European fiscal governance framework remains incomplete, hindering policy coordination during economic shocks and affecting the transmission of the single monetary policy. High public debt and low public investment worsen resilience across Member States.
Schang, Christopher, Vinci, Francesca
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Assessing the Fiscal Capacity of Indian Governments [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper we assess the record of different post reform governments in meeting their targets and improving both delivery and finances. A variety of indices are constructed, and consistency checks devised to measure relative performance. No government has achieved its targets, but the congress has the best record in keeping its promises, and the NDA
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The Fiscal Capacity of the Italian Regions
Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, 2010This paper demonstrates the presence of significant territorial gaps in Italian subnational governments ability to generate revenue through local taxation. An exercise concerning three main local taxes shows that such fiscal gaps reflect primarily regional economies development, while differences in tax rates and tax evasion across the Country play a ...
De Matteis P., Messina G.
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Government Reputation and Fiscal Capacity
How does a state allocate fiscal resources to an executive whose willingness to implement public spending is privately known? We separate an uninformed fiscal authority, which chooses a distortionary tax-financed mandate, from an executive, who either delivers public goods or diverts the proceeds.Ablyatifov, Emin, Lukyanov, Georgy
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Commodity dependence and fiscal capacity [PDF]
, 2011 This paper shows that higher commodity dependence reduces the government's incentive to invest in fiscal capacity. After developing a model that makes this prediction, evidence is provided supporting the view that countries more dependent on commodities (whose rents can be easily appropriated by the government, such as oil) have weaker fiscal capacity.
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The Origins of the State's Fiscal Capacity.
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022Carmine Guerriero, Laura Righi
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