Public investment is a fundamental response of government to the existing imbalances between subnational regions. Especially, the question concerning the allocation policy of public investment more receives a great deal of public attentions along with the decentralization process, because...

As one of central government’s tools to equalize fiscal disparities between regions in Indonesia, current allocation mechanism of intergovernmental grant has been a major issue in regional public finance. Specifically, specific grant (DAK) was proven not much more specific than general block...

Theoretically, according to Shah (1994), the specific purpose transfer fund suited for correcting inefficiencies in financing of public facilities with externalities (spillovers) to communities outside the recepient regions. Various types of matching grant: open-ended and closed-ended are in...

Evidences that young people are the highest risky drivers causing highway deaths and fatalities had made the Congress to pass the Legislation (S 378) to restrict young people driving on the road. The focus of the legislation is how to reduce the alcohol use of young people that is suspected to...

The economic crisis engulfing many Less Developed Countries (LDC's) has focused attention on the fragility of their financial sector. But longer-term need of many LDC's economies is to boost technological capability. While the physical capital is no longer the main problem for most of them, they...

One consequence of Indonesian fiscal decentralization and regional autonomy is that local governments now have more responsibility to more participate in poverty alleviation programs. Providing better access for local public goods and services is one possible action from local governments in...

One consequence of Indonesian fiscal decentralization is that local governments will have to seek additional revenues coming from their own resources, especially local taxes. For the first year of the implementation of decentralization alone, they had authorized approximately 1000 new taxes and...

The problem addressed mostly in tax and government spending study is the endogeneity problem between tax/spending and income or economic growth. Therefore, the efforts to find instruments for tax variable are very crucial. This paper investigates the factors that determine changes in state tax...

Finding alternatives in public good financing is one of the most recent issues in the government sector. Tax-financed for pure public good is well known results further problems like externalities and economic inequity. This paper only addresses the qualitative analysis in discussing benefits...