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Subnational atomization as a factor of increasing corruption in Venezuela

Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios Municipales, 2018
This mixed-method research is based on the general proposition that the greater the number of subnational jurisdictions relative to the population and the greater the number of vertical tiers of government, the greater the incentives for corruption.
Antonio Lecuna
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Taxation and Decentralization [PDF]

Strengthening subnational governments is high on the policy agenda of many developing countries. From an economics perspective, the most important potential benefit from decentralization is the increased efficiency (and consequent welfare gain) that ...
Bird, Richard
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Subnational burden estimates to find missing people with tuberculosis: wrong but useful?

BMC Global and Public Health
Efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) require reliable national and subnational data for planning, monitoring and evaluation. Yet, reliable subnational estimates of TB burden are hard to come by—especially at the lower levels of disaggregation such as ...
Sandra Alba, Christina Mergenthaler, Mirjam I. Bakker, Ente Rood   +3 more
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Subnational energy governance and energy resilience in low-carbon transitions: a narrative review

Discover Energy
The transition to low-carbon energy systems is increasingly shaped not only by technological innovation but also by governance arrangements that influence system performance, reliability, and resilience.
Ronald Mukanya, Khomotso Semenya
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"Subnational Borrowing in Japan : from 'Implicit Guarantee' to Market Discipline and Fiscal Rule" [PDF]

In many countries, local borrowing is an important source for long-term development projects such as roads, bridges, and waterworks. Local borrowing for such projects is justified on the ground that benefit of these projects often last decades and the ...
Nobuki Mochida
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Rethinking Subnational Taxes

IMF Working Papers, 1999
The assignment of revenues in most developing and transitional countries to the central government has arguably facilitated irresponsible behavior by some subnational governments. One way to relieve this problem is to strengthen subnational tax regimes. The paper proposes two approaches to accomplish such strengthening in developing countries.
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Integrating land financing into subnational fiscal management [PDF]

Land assets have become an important source of financing capital investments by subnational governments in developing countries. Land assets, often with billions of dollars per transaction, rival and sometimes surpass subnational borrowing or fiscal ...
Peterson, George E., Kaganova, Olga
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China’s paradiplomacy: a pilot study of subnational relations with neighboring countries on and off the BRI

Frontiers in Political Science
IntroductionA significant amount of effort and attention has been provided to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) strategy. Frequently, the existing analyses focus on the political or economic implications of China’s engagement with its BRI partners ...
Xuejun Liu, Nicholas Thomas
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Fiscal responsibility laws for subnational discipline : the Latin American experience [PDF]

This paper discusses fiscal responsibility laws in Latin America, with special attention to their provisions for fiscal discipline by subnational governments. It discusses why and when such laws might be useful-to help resolve the coordination problem in
Webb, Steven B.
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Provincial diffusion, national acceptance: the transfer of conservation easement policy in Canada

FACETS
Conservation easements (CEs) are a private land conservation (PLC) tool, with landowners voluntarily selling property rights to an outside entity (governmental or nongovernmental).
Forrest Hisey
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