Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Local Autonomy in Sudan: Experience of Gadarif State
Based on state data of the periods (1997-2012), this study aimed at evaluating the fiscal decentralization experience of Gadarif state of eastern Sudan in the context of different aspects of fiscal decentralization, namely expenditure assignment, revenue
Sharif Ismail M. Bongo
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Fiscal Illusion at the Local Sphere: An Empirical Test of the Flypaper Effect using South African Municipal Data [PDF]
Despite South Africa’s relatively decentralized governance and administrative structure, an important feature of the country’s intergovernmental fiscal relations system is the gap that exists between the expenditure responsibilities of sub-national ...
Hammed Amusa +2 more
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Building the Plane While Flying It: How Projects Serve to Implement, Pilot and Co‐Create EU Policy
ABSTRACT This article theorizes how projectified governance enables bottom‐up policy shaping in the EU, using the European Universities Initiative (EUI) as a case study. It develops a framework that combines bottom‐up Europeanization with resource exchange theory to explain how project networks influence EU policymaking.
Alina Felder‐Stindt
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Looking for Appropriate Forms of Intergovernmental Transfers for Municipalities in Transition Economies [PDF]
Intergovernmental transfers can be either conditional or unconditional with regard to the autonomy of local governments in spending such financial means.
Chang Woon Nam, Rüdiger Parsche
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Determinants of Value-Added Tax Revenue Transfers in Municipalities of Emerging Economies
This paper aims to test the hypothesis of the existence of significant tax competition between communes, which mainly concerns the share of value-added tax (VAT) proceeds, by exploring the system for allocating intergovernmental transfers in Morocco and ...
Brahim Abidar +2 more
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The article develops a system of factors determining the fiscal capacity of the municipality, given the measures of increase of efficiency of budget expenditures of the RF subject, provided in the form of intergovernmental transfers analyzed the specific
Nakhapu Ibragimova
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ABSTRACT Geologic carbon storage in depleted oil and gas reservoirs is a key CO2 mitigation strategy, utilizing existing infrastructure such as injection wells and pipelines, while capitalizing on well‐characterized subsurface properties. This article introduces a versatile methodology designed to estimate critical parameters, including the number of ...
Nívia Morgana de Oliveira +2 more
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Equalization Transfers and Dynamic Fiscal Adjustment: Results for German Municipalities and a US-German Comparison [PDF]
A large panel of German municipalities is employed in order to investigate the dynamic fiscal policy adjustment of local jurisdictions using a VEC model which explicitly takes account of the intertemporal budget constraint.
Thiess Buettner
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The Emergence of a Climate Change Signal in Ireland's Rainfall Extremes
Analysis of Irish precipitation records (1930–2019) shows significant relationships between rainfall extremes and global mean surface temperature (GMST), with increases of 12%–27% per °C of warming. Emergence of unusual climate conditions is already evident at several stations, most notably in the west during winter and the southeast during summer ...
Saoirse Fordham, Conor Murphy
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Are Intergovernmental Grants Tactical? The Evidence from Russia [PDF]
Two hypotheses about the determinants of Russian intergovernmental grants are tested empirically. According to first hypothesis, federal transfers to regions correlate with recent voting behavior of regional electorates.
Elena Jarocinska
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