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Fiscal Decentralisation, Efficiency, and Growth [PDF]

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2009
Much of the recent worldwide trend towards devolution has been driven by the belief that fiscal decentralisation is likely to have a positive effect on government efficiency and economic growth. It is generally assumed that the transfer of powers and resources to lower tiers of government allows for a better matching of public policies to local needs ...
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Sylvia A R Tijmstra, Adala Bwire   +2 more
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Fiscal Decentralisation and Fiscal Outcomes

2012
In recent years, the concern that the behaviour of subnational governments may hinder the achievement of national budgetary targets has been increasingly raised across the EU. In this paper the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and budgetary outcomes of the general government is analysed.
Matteo Governatori, David Yim
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What Drives Fiscal Decentralisation? [PDF]

This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal decentralisation, focusing in particular on the impact of the level of income on the level of fiscal decentralisation. Various measures of fiscal decentralisation, several of them novel in this context, are employed in a cross-country econometric model to test established and more recent hypotheses ...
Philip Bodman, Kathryn Ford, Tom Gole, Andrew Hodge   +3 more
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Fiscal Decentralisation: An Epilogue to Paretian Fiscal Thought

2007
As noted in Chapter 4, the Paretian approach to fiscal sociology commenced its decline in the early 1930s. It had become recognised as an established branch of the Italian tradition in fiscal studies: it was incorporated into public finance textbooks and was a common point of reference; but substantial new research that presented fiscal studies in the ...
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Fiscal decentralisation and economic growth in Vietnam

Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2011
By making use of a recently released panel dataset that covers 61 provinces of Vietnam, this paper examines the link between fiscal decentralisation and economic growth. Significant fiscal decentralisation has taken place in Vietnam from the mid-1990s.
Nguyen, L P, Anwar, S
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Albania: Aligning Territorial and Fiscal Decentralisation

2018
This chapter provides an overview of decentralisation reforms in Albania over the last 25 years. Although offering a similar bundle of instruments, decentralisation reforms undertaken across four distinct periods differ substantially in terms of scope, incentives, and outcomes. Albania has established the building blocks for effective local governance.
Elton Stafa, Merita Xhumari
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Fiscal Decentralisation and Ethnic Politics in Macedonia

Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, 2015
Competing ethno-centered strategies over the local fiscal resources can seriously undermine political and economic stability of ethnically diverse societies. This study investigates the causal link between ethnic diversity and local government finances by focusing on the case of Macedonia.
Aleksandra Maksimovska, Aleksandar Stojkov, Patrick Schmidt   +2 more
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Fiscal Decentralisation In Hungary - Experiences And Challenges

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002
A substantial achievement resulting from economic and political changes in Hungary has been the development of the local government system. That sector of general government will have a key role in the process of accession to the European Union. In spite of some undoubted achievements in the local government system, it can be stated that one of the ...
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Aspects of fiscal decentralisation in Croatia

2011
The majority of modern states, whether unilateral or federal, are organised on more than one level of government. The process of fiscal decentralisation, in Republic of Croatia started in 2001 with new law on local and district (regional) autonomy that has decentralised the fields of education, social and health care.
Krtalić, Sandra, Borovčak Škreblin, Barbara   +1 more
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Fiscal decentralisation in India

2021
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