Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana
Abstract In this paper, we estimate the efficiency of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana, and investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using data from composite budgets of all 216 MMDAs, we employ both non‐parametric and parametric frontier ...
Isaac Otoo, Michael Danquah
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Globalisation and government spending: Evidence for the ‘hyper‐globalisation’ of the 1990s and 2000s
Abstract In this paper, we provide an up‐to‐date empirical assessment of the relationship between economic globalisation and government spending for the ‘hyper‐globalisation’ period of the 1990s and 2000s. We use data on government consumption spending and more disaggregated spending components (e.g., social welfare).
Edward Anderson, Samuel Obeng
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The flypaper effect results when a dollar of exogenous grants-in-aid leads to significantly greater public spending than an equivalent dollar of citizen income: Money sticks where it hits. Viewing governments as agents for a representative citizen voter, this empirical result is an anomaly. Four alternative explanations have been offered.
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Fiscal illusion and the Australian local government grants process: How sticky is the flypaper effect? [PDF]
It has been argued that evidence supporting the widely documented flypaper effect is a statistical artefact; more specifically that previous studies are compromised by the use of inappropriate functional forms and the endogeneity of intergovernmental ...
Worthington, Andrew C. +1 more
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Flypaper Effect pada Kinerja Keuangan Kabupaten/Kota di Provinsi Jambi [PDF]
Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis fenomena flypaper effect pada kinerja keuangan kabupaten/kota di Provinsi Jambi. Untuk tujuan tersebut dikembangkan dua model regresi data panel yang memperlihatkan keterkaitan antara perilaku belanja
Amril Amril, Erfit Erfit, M. Safri
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Flypaper Effect Analysis on Regional Expenditure in East Java Province, Indonesia
This study aims to analyze the possibility of a flypaper effect on district and city regional spending in East Java Province, Indonesia. In this study the General Allocation Fund (DAU), Revenue Sharing Fund (DBH), and Local Own Revenue (PAD) are used as ...
Fauzan Fikri
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BELANJA PEGAWAI, INVESTASI, DAN PEMBAYARAN UTANG PEMERINTAH DAERAH TERHADAP FENOMENA FLYPAPER EFFECT [PDF]
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh belanja pegawai, investasi pemerintah dan pembayaran utang pemerintah daerah terhadap flypaper effect pada pemerintah Kabupaten/kota di Sumatera Selatan.
Aprilia, Indah +2 more
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Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion
ABSTRACT Intergovernmental grants stimulate the diffusion of policy reforms, as the federal government provides states with a financial incentive to adopt policies aligned with federal priorities. Less is known about the extent to which these grants also stimulate horizontal diffusion across states.
NaLette Brodnax, Sarah James
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This study empirically examines the influence of intergovernmental transfers and the fall of it to local government’s expenditure in Indonesia as well as the possibility of flypaper effect occurrence over pandemic.
Sherlita Nurosidah +2 more
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Phenology of Kleptobiotic Sundew Bugs Tracks Peak Stickiness of Their Carnivorous Host Plants
ABSTRACT Drosera L. (Droseraceae) is a diverse genus of carnivorous plants that is cosmopolitan in distribution, with Australia its centre of diversity (ca. 160 species in Australia). Collectively known as sundews, their leaves are covered with mobile sticky hairs (“tentacles”) that serve as active flypaper‐type traps that catch small invertebrates ...
Zoe Bloesch +4 more
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