Can fiscal transfers achieve both equity and efficiency: Evidence from Chinese counties
International Review of Economics & FinanceWhether fiscal transfers can simultaneously achieve the dual goals of equity and growth has been a key topic of public finance research. This paper examines China's fiscal decentralization system and its intergovernmental transfer practices, proposing ...
Feng Liu, Yangmu Hu
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Federal Tax Competition and the Efficiency Consequences for Local Taxation of Revenue Equalization [PDF]
Recent work has shown that a system of equalization grants can limit tax competition among lower-level governments. The structure of such models, however, does not allow for the federal to be an active player but its role is being limited in the ...
Christos Kotsogiannis
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Studying to Support? Exploring Remittance Responsibilities Among Black South African Graduates
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A large majority of Black South Africans remain restricted by intergenerational education and economic disadvantages. Labour market returns to tertiary qualifications are high, but the share of youth accessing post‐secondary education remains low.
Emma Whitelaw +2 more
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A Practitioner´s Guide to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers [PDF]
Intergovernmental fiscal transfers are a dominant feature of sub-national finance in most countries. They are used to ensure that revenues roughly match the expenditure needs of various orders (levels) of sub-national governments.
Anwar Shah
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Sustainable finance and horizontal fiscal equalization: the case of bolivian municipalities
Investigación & DesarrolloSustainable finance is consistently gaining relevance in financial markets across the world including Bolivia, a country where more than seventy percent of the population live in urban areas.
Bernardo Fernández-Tellería +1 more
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Fiscal Equalization: The Case of German Municipalities [PDF]
Finanzausgleich, Kommunaler Finanzausgleich, Deutschland, Fiscal transfer, Local intergovernmental transfer ...
Thiess Buettner, Fédéric Holm-Hadulla
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Does Economic Complexity Promote Inclusive Green Growth in Developing Economies?
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although economic complexity (ECI) is closely linked to structural transformation, its implications for inclusive green growth (IGG) remain underexplored, particularly in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Notably, there is a knowledge gap on how progress in ECI affects IGG.
Emmanuel Y. Gbolonyo +2 more
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Council Tax Policies and Territorial Governance: Analysis and Outlook of a Difficult Relationship
TeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2015 In recent years, the dependency of local public finance from various forms of taxation related to urban development and real estate has become increasingly evident in Italy.
Simone Rusci
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MatImageAgent: A Large Language Multimodal Agent for Materials Characterization Images
Materials Genome Engineering Advances, EarlyView.MatImageAgent, an LLM‐powered agent‐based system, automates materials science image analysis by task descriptions, shows high stability/accuracy, and boosts productivity by reducing programming needs. ABSTRACT Our study introduces MatImageAgent, an agent‐based system that employs large language models (LLMs) to completely automate the image analysis ...
Mingxi Jiang +6 more
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The Fiscal Equalization Scheme for Woredas
, 2021 This entry has been realised in the framework of the H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 project “LoGov - Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay”. LoGov aims to provide solutions for local governments that address the fundamental challenges resulting from urbanisation.
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