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State Finances in India: A Case for Systemic Reform [PDF]
This paper provides a self-contained overview of the present problems of state finances in India. It begins with an overview of historical evolution and current institutional structures, including economic, political, administrative and fiscal aspects of
Singh, Nirvikar
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Anthromes and terrestrial carbon
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Anthony P. Walker +5 more
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Environmental Footprint of Diffuse Emissions in European Functional Urban Areas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper quantifies the environmental footprint of diffuse air emissions across 776 European functional urban areas (FUAs) from 2005 to 2022 by coupling Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) gridded inventories with the Environmental Footprint (EF) 3.1 framework.
Iñaki Sasia, Gorka Bueno, Iker Etxano
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Transition to market and normative framework of fiscal federalim [PDF]
The mainstream literature on normative framework on fiscal federalism has been largely developed keeping in view the advanced market economies. It is necessary to modify these before they are applied to developing transitional economies to take account ...
M.G. Rao
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires transparent and accountable local governments, yet little is known about the structural drivers of municipal transparency. This study introduces a machine learning approach to predict municipal transparency using the Bidimensional Transparency Index (BTI), which measures both the ...
Ana M. Plata‐Díaz +3 more
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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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Exerting local tax effort or lobbying for central transfers?: Evidence from Argentina [PDF]
In many countries fiscal decentralization characterizes the relationship among different levels of government. In those countries, local authorities have the prerogative to tax their constituencies.
Martin Besfamille, Pablo Sanguinetti
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Can Environmental Markets Pay for More Sustainable Farm Dams? A Cost–Benefit Analysis
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farm dams are widespread artificial waterbodies that play a critical role in agricultural water security. Enhancing these systems through sustainable interventions such as fencing, hardened access points, and revegetation can improve water quality and deliver carbon and biodiversity co‐benefits.
K. U. D. N. Hansani +4 more
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Does Partisan Alignment Affect the Electoral Reward of Intergovernmental Transfers? [PDF]
In this paper we test the hypothesis that intergovernmental grants allocated to co-partisans buy more political support than grants allocated to local governments controlled by opposition parties.
Albert Solé-Ollé +1 more
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Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics : toward a systematic framework of analysis [PDF]
The decentralization of government in Eastern Europe represents a reaction both from below (to tight central political control) and from above (to privatize the economy and relieve the central government's fiscal stress).
Bird, Richard, Wallich, Christine
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