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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"fiscal decentralization"”.
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Fiscal decentralization and urban public transport
… Yet, there is no literature on the effects of decentralization of tax raising on public transport provision although an increasing number of subnational governments reports a mismatch between transferred resources and devolved responsibilities and the public finance literature indicates that …
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Fiscal decentralization and revenue mobilization : case of Olongapo City, Philippines
… of Olongapo City under the Philippines fiscal decentralization policy. It documents the revenue generation processes in Olongapo City, analyses the various administrative and procedural roadblocks faced in generating revenue from major local sources, and recommends steps that can be …
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How local can government go? : lessons from fiscal decentralization in Uganda
… of local government under Uganda's ambitious decentralization process. Improved collection is attributed to better enforcement, local retention of tax receipts, and smaller jurisdictions. Expenditure of these funds varies, more often than not going to administrative costs and not towards …
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The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Health and Education Spending and Outcomes: Evidence from Ethiopia
This thesis explores the impacts of fiscal decentralization on woreda level spending and local health and education outcomes in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Using fiscal decentralization theory, we predict that local conditions will affect future local spending patterns because local governments …
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The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Health and Education Spending and Outcomes: Evidence from Ethiopia
This thesis explores the impacts of fiscal decentralization on woreda level spending and local health and education outcomes in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Using fiscal decentralization theory, we predict that local conditions will affect future local spending patterns because local governments …
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Fiscal Decentralization and Municipal Budget Policy in Countries with Economies in Transition: Comparing Local Revenue Systems
The thesis explores the effect of fiscal decentralization on local governments budgeting and fiscal autonomy in selected transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The implications of legislative changes on local budgets and revenue authority are analyzed. Discrepancies between legal …
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Unequal development : decentralization and fiscal disparities in the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico
This study is about the impact of decentralization in metropolitan areas. Studies of fiscal decentralization have largely centered on the formal tiers of government, without looking at the effects of this process on the recipient jurisdictions in metropolitan areas. This is an important omission, …
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Essays on Federalism and Local Finance in China
… in China.</p> <p>Chapter 1 - Economic Growth, Fiscal Inequality and Fiscal Decentralization: Evidence from China.</p> <p>This paper investigates the impact of inequality in the geographic distribution of fiscal resources on regional economic growth under fiscal decentralization policy in the …
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Regional income disparities in Indonesia: measurements, convergence process, and decentralization
… Java and studies the impact of Indonesia’s 2001 fiscal decentralization on regional income disparities across districts. East Java is chosen as a case study because of its economical and geopolitical importance to Indonesia. In addition, East Java has been dubbed a case of “balanced development,” …
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AN ASSESSMENT OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN DECENTRALIZED SERVICE DELIVERY: THE CASE OF VIETNAM
… effects of citizen participation and subnational fiscal arrangements on the success of fiscal decentralization efforts in Vietnam. Using cluster analysis and regression analysis, I find that the success of decentralization efforts, explains not only by the degree of decentralized fiscal …
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Essays on Public Economics and Spatial Econometrics
… is to investigate the spatial interdependence of fiscal variables (budget balance, tax revenue, and public expenditure) and the spillover effect of conflict on the level of local jurisdictions. The first study provides an empirical investigation of fiscal interactions in the context of a …
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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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Decentralization and health performance in Italy: theoretical and empirical issues
… chapter investigates the relationship between fiscal decentralization and regional health outcomes, as measured by infant mortality rates, in Italy. The paper employs a panel of all Italian regions over a period of 17 years (from 1996 to 2012), applying a linear Fixed-Effect model. Two …
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A municipalização dos objetivos do milênio: o caso do município de Sertãozinho
… the idea development of the thematic side of fiscal decentralization and federative model were the theoretical and historical foundations that guided this study. In turn, reading references, field research conducted in the city and the treatment of statistical data served as a methodological …
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Space wars in Bogotá : the recovery of public space and its impact on street vendors
… of the Bogotá Mayor's Office, (2) political and fiscal decentralization, and (3) the political-economic marginalization of traditionally obstructive Bogotá vendor unions. Field work was carried out in metropolitan Bogotá to determine the impact of the public space recuperation on vendors who …
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The slow zone : designing alternative paths for the future of North Bali
… Following the 1997 Asia Financial Crisis, fiscal decentralization in Indonesia distributed administrative power from the province to the district level, creating competition among districts. The high profitability of real estate over agricultural land created development schemes that favor …
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Trade, fiscal transfers, diversity and the resource curse : evidence from Canada and the US
… to intranational and international trade, fiscal decentralization, trade openness, economic diversity, resource curse and economic growth – all within a Canada-US sub-national framework. Chapter 1 provides the motivation for the study and sets the stage for the various empirical-based …
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A Comparative Study of Intergovernmental Relations of two Federal Districts: The Case of the U.S. District of Columbia and Brasília, Brazil
… analyzing their legislative, administrative, and fiscal decentralization. The study proposes a model of an intergovernmental relationship between the District of Columbia and the United States Congress, and assesses the autonomy levels of both the federal districts of Brazil and the United States. …
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Local government in South Africa – Efficiencies revisited
… of governance that develops as a response of fiscal decentralization implicating a transfer of power and responsibility for public affairs from central government to lower levels, such as regional or local governments. The problem at hand emanates from the limited understanding of the …
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Funding for adaptation to climate change : the case of Surat
… for local governments in India, where incomplete fiscal decentralization has resulted in severe developmental deficits and resource constraints. Using Surat, Gujarat, as a case study, this research examines how cities in India might fund climate adaptation despite limited fiscal and administrative …
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