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Is Decentralisation in Ghana pro-poor?
Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2010 There is a popular belief among decentralists that if local governments have the power to generate and spend revenue, without relying on central government funding, their expenditure will be pro-poor and will improve the lives of local people. Such views
Franklin Obeng-Odoom
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Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2020 This article investigates the challenges facing decentralised governance in poor and underdeveloped areas in Eastern Indonesia. The Timor Tengah Selatan (TTS) regency in West Timor in Nusa Tenggara Timur province is taken as a case study.
Dennis Shoesmith +2 more
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Four Essays on Fiscal Decentralisation and Secessions [PDF]
Quatre essais sur la décentralisation fiscale et les secessions Entre 1945 et 2008, le nombre de pays reconnus internationalement a augmenté de 74 à 193 (Spolaore, 2008). Plus récemment, plusieurs pays ont vécu une vague croissante de décentralisation.
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Fiscal Decentralisation and Regional Disparities [PDF]
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 2016 Fiscal decentralisation can lead to a more efficient provision of local public goods and services and promote a better match between policies and citizens’ preferences. At the same time, however, there are concerns about whether all regions will gain from more autonomy. Decentralisation may not lift all boats, with “poor” regions losing competitiveness
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Urban Science, 2019 The most recent English attempts at decentralisation take the shape of the city region devolution policy agenda. Decentralisation claims to empower localities and address regional growth imbalances, while creating a variety of new temporary and selective
Carina Schneider, Clémentine Cottineau
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On the Logic of Separating the Fiscal Policy from the Fiscal Administration
EIRP Proceedings, 2010 One of the problems yet to be solved in a satisfactorily manner in Romania is the decentralisation of the public administration. In general, by decentralisation we understand the separation of the central decision from the local (or regional) decision ...
Ionel Leonida +4 more
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JAKPP (Jurnal Analisis Kebijakan dan Pelayanan Publik)Decentralisation has been widely promoted as a mechanism for enhancing democratic governance, accountability, and service delivery, particularly in developing countries.
Sulaiman Saidu Abubakar
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Local Governance in Bangladesh: Policy and Strategy Framework
Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2016 The author argued that the absence of a local governance policy is a priority governance problem in Bangladesh, which affects effective implementation of decentralisation policies and programmes sporadically undertaken from time to time.
Tofail Ahmed
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Iustinianus Primus Law Review, 2010 In the last few decades the phenomenon of the fiscal decentralisation becomes highly important and challenging. The countries implementing decentralisation reforms are transferring fiscal revenues and competences due to assigned local tasks from ...
Aleksandra Maksimovska Veljanovski
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Local government finance in Ireland: The four pillars of fiscal decentralisation
AdministrationThis article outlines Ireland’s system of local government finance using a conceptual framework drawn from the fiscal federalism and municipal finance literature.
Turley Gerard
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