Results 251 to 260 of about 2,112 (294)

Unlocking value: a comprehensive costing study of primary health care service delivery in Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Prim Care
Margini F   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fiscal Decentralisation, Efficiency, and Growth [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironment 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   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

What Drives Fiscal Decentralisation? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
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 ...
Bodman, Philip   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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.
Lan Phi Nguyen, Sajid Anwar
exaly   +3 more sources

The Economics of Measuring Fiscal Decentralisation Part 1: An Overview of Recent Insights into Fiscal Decentralisation

open access: yes, 2008
This thesis investigates economic aspects of the measurement of fiscal decentralisation to establish how a nation’s fiscal arrangements can be consistently measured, so they can be compared internationally. A new index of fiscal decentralisation is developed that reflects two key elements of the theory of fiscal decentralisation: the fiscal autonomy of
Duc Vo
openaire   +2 more sources

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
openaire   +1 more source

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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy