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How Should Subnational Government Borrowing Be Regulated?Some Cross-Country Empirical Evidence [PDF]
Countries have adopted various institutional responses to subnational government borrowing. Using a sample of 43 countries over the period 1982-2000, this paper provides a panel data analysis to determine the most effective borrowing constraints for ...
Alexander Plekhanov, Raju Singh
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Subnational government bailouts in Germany [PDF]
The paper presents an investigation of subnational government bailouts in Germany. In a first part we briefly describe the fiscal federalism system in Germany. The main part of the paper examines the bailout of two West German states.
Seitz, Helmut
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Subnational MDG 4 target achievement.
, 2019 Subnational MDG 4 target achievement.
Zehang Li (6250745) +5 more
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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 HealthEfforts 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 +3 more
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Subnational energy governance and energy resilience in low-carbon transitions: a narrative review
Discover EnergyThe 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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Subnational Electoral Democracy Scale Dataset
This dataset contains the Subnational Electoral Democracy Scale which measures subnational democracy across secondary subnational units in 12 federal democratic countries from 1980 until 2016. See the accompanying codebook and DoFile for more information
Fidalgo, Amanda
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Decentralization, Subnational Governments' Behaviour and Macroeconomic Instability: The Case of Malaysia [PDF]
In the last two decades there has been a worldwide interest in decentralization of government in all parts of the world. There are two main objectives that we tried to achieve through this study.
Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah
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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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