Does school autonomy improve educational outcomes? Judging the performance of foundation secondary schools in England [PDF]
Government and researchers use school performance measures such as contextual value-added to claim that giving schools autonomy from local authority control produces superior pupil performance in GCSE examinations. This paper explores the extent to which
Rebecca Allen
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Decentralization and Local Governments’ Performance: How Does Fiscal Autonomy Affect Spending Efficiency? [PDF]
In Italy, as in other countries around the world, recent reforms share the goal of increasing the fiscal autonomy of lower tiers of governments, from Regions to Municipalities, in order to align spending with funding responsibilities and increase the ...
Gilberto Turati +2 more
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Does Local School Control Raise Student Outcomes?: Evidence on the Roles of School Autonomy and Parental Participation [PDF]
School autonomy and parental participation have been frequently proposed as ways of making schools more productive. Less clear is how governments can foster decentralized decision-making by local schools. This paper shows that across eight Latin-American
Gunnarsson, Victoria +3 more
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The Dynamics of Decentralization Arrangements in Indonesia Constitutional System
Mimbar, 2016 Local autonomy has long been implemented in Indonesia and has been experiencing a number of phases within governmental system. This writing is intended to fathom the dynamics of decentralization arrangement indeed.
Haposan Siallagan
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SUSTAINABILITY OF LOCAL DECISIONS DURING FINANCIAL CRISIS [PDF]
Defined by its administrative and financial content, local autonomy is expressed throughout local financial decisions thus, involving the financial management of local communities. These apparent unconditioned decisions are in fact deeply influenced by a
Florin OPREA, Mihaela ONOFREI
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Finantarea autoritatilor locale in Romania [PDF]
This paper is trying to establish, in Romania, at macroeconomic level, quantitative and qualitative, relations between gross domestic product and governmental and local revenues.financing, local autonomy, evolution, econometric ...
Crasneac, Alexandru Ocatavian +3 more
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The myth of markets in school education [PDF]
This report argues that neither creating more competition among schools nor giving them more autonomy without support to improve learning are the vital solutions that will lift the performance of Australian students.Neither creating more competition
Ben Jensen
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Basic Strategies For The Role Of Indonesian Central-local Government In Poverty Alleviation Programs [PDF]
One consequence of Indonesian fiscal decentralization and regional autonomy is that local governments now have more responsibility to more participate in poverty alleviation programs.
Kodrat Wibowo
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Inflation and the Sharing of Macroeconomic Power: A Panel Data Analysis Applied to the Chinese Provinces [PDF]
Important inflation differences have been existing since 1978 across the Chinese provinces. This paper intends to connect this observation with the literature that emphasises the role of local governments in the process of excess credit supply and ...
Geneviève BOYREAU-DEBRAY
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