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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Fiscal federalism"”.
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Fiscal federalism and decentralization in Mongolia
Fiscal federalism has been an important topic among public finance theorists in the last four decades. There is a series of arguments that decentralization of governments enhances growth by improving allocation efficiency. However, the empirical studies have shown mixed results for industrialized …
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Fiscal federalism: the study of federal-state fiscal relations in Malaysia
The subject of fiscal federalism has been associated for many years with economics, in particular with the study of public finance. However, its political dimension is often neglected. This is the case in the conventional study of fiscal federalism in Malaysia, which focuses on the economic …
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Fiscal Federalism, Social Mobility, and Poverty Alleviation: Essays in Political Economy
The third essay on poverty alleviation treats welfare transfers as a public good which eliminates the public bad of poverty. Local governments establish minimum consumption thresholds for the poor, financed by proportional income taxation. Despite the fact that income transfers are negative for a …
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Fiscal federalism and its potential effects on public transportation in mid-sized cities
The current fiscally conservative climate on Capitol Hill, as the next surface transportation bill is being negotiated, may possibly carry over to a greater dependence on fiscal federalism for funding public transportation. With local governments already straining their resources, an examination of …
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The Social Cost of Fiscal Federalism and the Depletion of China’s Native Forests
China's key forested region is located in the northeast. This region consists of state forest enterprises which manage harvesting and reforestation and have represented the most important source of wood supplies since the 1950s. Deforestation is a major problem there, however, and has resulted in …
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Trade liberalization, fiscal federalism, and foreign capital inflows in the context of the Chinese reforms
… liberalization, the central-local governmental fiscal relation, and foreign investment.
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Fiscal federalism an equity in the financing of primary health care: The case of South Africa
This thesis investigates the implications of fiscal federalism on the equitable distribution of primary health care resources in South Africa. The study evaluates the processes and criteria for intergovernmental and sector budgeting, the influence of key stakeholders, community involvement in PHC …
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Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Responders (SAFER) Grant Program: An Analysis of Fiscal Federalism and How Local Governments utilize SAFER Grant Funding
… Responders (SAFER) Grant Program: An Analysis of Fiscal Federalism and How Local Governments Utilize SAFER Grant Funding. Thomas J. Layou ABSTRACT This dissertation presents a comprehensive analysis of the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Responders (SAFER) grant program's impact on …
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An assessment of the assigned fiscal revenue instruments to local authorities in Namibia
… assigns expenditure responsibilities as well as fiscal instruments to raise revenue to fund these expenditure responsibilities. The research looked at how this assigned fiscal instruments were performing via-a-vis the expenditure responsibilities. It also assessed their suitability and …
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Análise da dependência das transferências intergovernamentais dos municípios paraibanos
… of sharing with the purpose of strengthen the fiscal federalism. This Constitution also ruled the system of intergovernmental transfers. This system has the objective to correct inequalities between federated entities, where own resources don‟t satisfy thex necessities of the regional …
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Local resource mobilization in developing countries : the case of South Africa
… structure of intergovernmental transfers. Using fiscal-federalism, economic-efficiency, and equity principles, I identify appropriate measures for restructuring these intergovernmental fiscal arrangements in developing countries and apply them to a single case, South Africa. My central research …
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Making decentralization work : building local institutions in Cambodia
… donor agencies, and NGOs. The literature on fiscal federalism and on participatory and governance focuses on the primacy of either process or output. Contrary to these views, the close links between process and output have encouraged local communities to undertake collective action and have …
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The impact of Proposal A on two Michigan school districts
… followed by a review of the relationship between fiscal federalism, governance, and resource dependency theory and application of those findings to data relevant to the two districts in northern Michigan. This study is unique in its narrowed focus and structural specificity.</p>
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The role of local government in combating HIV/AIDS in South Africa: An institutional analysis
… crucial to an effective and efficient response. Fiscal federalism theory suggests that while the macroeconomic stabilisation and income distribution functions are most appropriately discharged at central government level; the allocative function is best accomplished by local government. Thus at …
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Urbanisation and Fiscal Risks in China
… officials to take the lead in urbanising China, fiscal institutions place heavy financial burdens on local governments. This thesis studies two major problems that arose from China’s urbanisation process. In terms of theoretical contribution, the thesis both advances the theories of Chinese style …
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Black Public Works: The Political Economy of Race and New Deal Infrastructure
… political development, economic history, and fiscal federalism. This thesis also problematizes the redistributive impact of infrastructure on material and fiscal grounds by emphasizing how the policymaking and institutional legacies of New Deal public works are as consequential as their …
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Defining and Analyzing Negative Policy Transfer: National Orphan Drug Regulatory Policy in Canada and Australia
… different points in time, including conflicts of fiscal federalism and a lack of necessary norms of intergovernmental relations, political capacity, and consensus among experts on the necessity of a national regulatory policy. Path dependency and problem redefinition have impacted policymaking in …
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Essays on motor fuel taxation and price dynamics in the European Union
… to a limited empirical literature on motor fuel fiscal competition and discussions on fuel tourism and fiscal policy coordination in Europe. The first essay provides an overview of the EU market from 1994 to 2010 for four major motor fuels and its evolution at every stage of EU expansion. It …
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Public debt and the common good.
… Finally, this study posits a contribution to fiscal federalism theory. The market-oriented assumptions undergirding Oates' Decentralization Theorem do not lend themselves to a variety of contexts as well as the more comprehensive view of political freedom that integrates institutions and mores.
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Local Fiscal Sustainability within American Federalism
… (OPEB) liabilities impose major threats to local fiscal sustainability, which increases governments' default risk and crowds out funding for essential local services. To close the funding gaps, localities may apply a wide range of fiscal instruments, including increasing taxes, fees, and user …
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