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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"fiscal capacity"”.
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An analysis of employing adjusted gross income measures as a proxy for fiscal capacity in the local composite index for selected Virginia school divisions
Fiscal capacity is some type of quantifiable measure of economic resources existing within a political subdivision, jurisdiction, or governmental unit which may be utilized to support a wide array of public functions. Measures commonly used throughout the United States as indicators of economic …
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Virginia school finance reform: a comparison of the Virginia public elementary and secondary school finance program from 1973-1981 in regard to fiscal equity
… this study was to determine the extent to which fiscal equity has been advanced, if any, for the Commonwealth of Virginia since the current state aid funding system was implemented for the 1974-75 school year. This purpose was accomplished by examining three years of data to investigate whether …
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The Local Composite Index: A Critical Analysis
… Virginia's measure of public school division fiscal capacity. This study documented and analyzed the behavior of the mathematical and structural components of the current formula over the period inclusive of Biennia 1984-86 through 1996-98. It was implemented in five phases: 1. Literature …
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Multivariate analysis of equity in public elementary and secondary school finance
… based upon the interrelationships of multiple fiscal, non-fiscal school and community variables, and pupil output measures. Six orthogonal factors, derived from principal components analysis and varimax rotation of 24 school and community variables from 131 Virginia school districts during the …
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The Quality of Public High School Facilities Among Selected School Divisions, Commonwealth of Virginia
… factors that include; local composite index, fiscal effort and fiscal capacity. A significant finding of the study was that a large variance existed between the quality of high school facilities within the sampled school divisions, as measured by Crossman CAFIS. Reasons for that variance can …
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The role of regional government in poverty reduction in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
… 2001, has provided more political power and fiscal capacity to the region, and therefore it has been expected to give more opportunity for regional governments to accelerate regional development and bring their people to greater prosperity. However, East Kalimantan still harbors high levels …
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The Use of Electronic Technology by High School Principals in Virginia
… experience, Local Composite Index (fiscal capacity), size of student enrollment, time, attitudes, home computer use, and laptop use. The entire population of high school principals in the Commonwealth of Virginia was surveyed; a 76.7% return rate was attained. Descriptive statistics …
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An Analysis of Average Principals' Salaries in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… be associated with average principals' salaries--fiscal capacity, average daily membership, the education level of citizens, per pupil expenditure, and average household income. Data from 133 school divisions for the 1994-95 school year were used in the analysis. Stepwise regression method was …
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Explaining Regime Change: A Directed Acyclic Graph
… In addition, they indicate that decreased state fiscal capacity and lower professionalism and autonomy of the bureaucracy also increase this probability. The theoretical and empirical results of this study provide significant insights for explaining regime change and will continue to have …
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Essays on international macroeconomics
… commits to repay but is constrained by its fiscal capacity which is low when the private sector needs outside liquidity. I find that the government can increase domestic investment by tranching its fiscal capacity, increasing the number of assets supplied and introducing state-contingency or …
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Essays on Urban Resilience to Environmental and Health Risks
… housing values and property tax revenues reduce fiscal capacity for levee maintenance, which increases levee failure risk and further depresses housing values. These feedback dynamics reinforce under-maintenance and perpetuate spatial inequality. Chapter 2 analyzes the social cost of behavioral …
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Capital outlay in fifty states: An analysis to determine an equitable model for Illinois
… and an equalized payback formula based on local fiscal capacity.
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Are Public Private Partnerships catalysing economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa?
… development has been used, however fiscal capacity constraints have become a challenge. To balance availability of funding and economic development constraints, governments in Sub-Saharan Africa have had to find alternative funding methods. Public private partnerships, as an …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… amendments appear to have no effect on state fiscal capacity. The third chapter documents the impact of risk premium shocks on firm-level outcomes and explores the dimensions of heterogeneity in those responses. I find that investment falls more for firms with higher betas. Risk premium shocks …
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The neoliberal state and multiculturalism : the need for democratic accountability
… that have historically lacked sufficient fiscal capacity and have been hampered by colonialism in the development of the political capacity necessary to fully meet the requirements entailed by the devolution. At the same time, this practice releases the formerly responsible jurisdiction …
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The Relationship Between Budget Expenditures and Building Conditions of Selected School Divisions in The Commonwealth of Virginia
… were analyzed over a five year period for fiscal years 2000-2005. An independent t-test drawn from SPSS software was used to determine statistical significance between combined per-pupil expenditures for facilities and debt service. A comparison of the (1) means of total expenditures in the …
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States' Investment in Human Capital: Higher Education Funding Effort
… states in the study varied dramatically in their fiscal capacity to generate the revenue needed to support public services, a capacity influenced by state resource endowment, tax structure, and the ability and will of public officials to expand that capacity. Utilizing data from 2001 to 2009, the …
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States' Investment in Human Capital: Higher Education Funding Effort
… states in the study varied dramatically in their fiscal capacity to generate the revenue needed to support public services, a capacity influenced by state resource endowment, tax structure, and the ability and will of public officials to expand that capacity. Utilizing data from 2001 to 2009, the …
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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 …