Search Results - subject:"FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION"

Threshold effects of fiscal decentralization on income inequality: Evidence from Vietnam

Hung, Nguyen Thanh; Thanh, Su Dinh - In: Cogent Business & Management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-26

This paper proposes a new approach to analyse the dynamic relationships between Fiscal decentralization and Income … (PSTR) model for estimating the threshold impact of fiscal decentralization on income equality through economic growth. The … new insight into the mixed results regarding the nonlinear relationship between fiscal decentralization and income …

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The moderating role of natural resources between fiscal decentralization, government internal audit, law enforcement and corruption: Evidence from Indonesian local government

Nathan, Livia; Aswar, Khoirul; Nasir, Azwir - In: Contemporary Economics 16 (2022) 4, pp. 397-409

with its influencing determinants, namely fiscal decentralization, government internal audit, and law enforcement and … fiscal decentralization had a significant effect on the level of corruption, government internal audit and law enforcement … of fiscal decentralization on the level of corruption. This research was conducted to examine and analyze the factors …

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Fiscal federalism and foreign direct investment: An empirical analysis

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Palhuca, Leonardo; … - 2022

present evidence that fiscal decentralization (de facto) does not reduce FDI. If local governments can set their tax rates and …

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Is fiscal decentralization growth enhancing? A cross-country study in developing countries over the period 1990-2014

Digdowiseiso, Kumba - In: Economies 10 (2022) 3, pp. 1-17

. However, several studies have neglected the role of institutions and other institutional settings in fiscal decentralization …. This study augments the literature by revisiting the fiscal decentralization-growth nexus regarding institutional quality …

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Are fiscal decentralization and institutional quality poverty abating? Empirical evidence from developing countries

Digdowiseiso, Kumba - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16

Fiscal federalism theorists have long been intrigued by the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty … provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty. It focuses on how the function … of institutional quality can explain the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty in 53 developing …

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Fiscal decentralization, economic growth, and human development: Empirical evidence

In: Cogent Economics & Finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-17

The objective of this paper is to examine the simultaneous relationship between fiscal decentralization, economic … that the significant relationship does exist between fiscal decentralization, economic growth, and human development from … not give rise to the efficiency of fiscal decentralization, yet could reduce human development instead. The results …

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Fiscal Equalization Pushes Up Local Tax Rates : Evidence from a Swiss Reform

Mauri, Nicola - 2022

This paper investigates incentive effects of fiscal equalization on local tax rates. I propose three refinements to current empirical estimations of these incentive effects. I show that local policy makers may conceive of changes in equalization transfers as stemming from discrete rather than...

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Fiscal Federalism and Challenges of Service Delivery in Kaduna North and Kaduna South Local Government Areas of Kaduna State

Bello, Dr. Matthew F.; Akume, Albert - 2022

Federalism as a system of government that allows for the existence of multiple units of government calls for continuous interaction and interdependence among the various units of government in order to deliver public services effectively. In this pattern of governance, functions are shared which...

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Fiscal Decentralization Improves Social Outcomes When Countries Have Good Governance

Nakatani, Ryota; Zhang, Qianqian; Garcia Valdes, Isaura - 2022

Does fiscal decentralization improve health and educational outcomes? Does this improvement depend on the quality of … governance? How do fiscal decentralization and governance interact? We answer these questions through an instrumental variable … Tobit analysis of cross-country panel data. We find negative effects of fiscal decentralization on health outcomes, which …

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Pandemic Federalism

Coglianese, Cary - 2022

Legislators, agency officials, and the public have a lot to learn from the United States’ experience in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. If policymakers take seriously their responsibility to identify past mistakes, and then act now to prepare for future viral outbreaks, the nation can do...

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