Search Results - subject:"devolution"

Devolution in Kenya Four Years On : A Review of Implementation and Effects in Mandera County

Cannon, Brendon - 2019

Instituted in 2013, devolution in Kenya seeks to bring government closer to the people by devolving political and … economic resources to Kenya's forty-seven county governments. Devolution's stated aim is to better address the local needs of … Kenyans. This article attempts to gauge the extent to which devolution has been implemented at the county/local level by …

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Designing Sound Fiscal Relations Across Government Levels in Decentralized Countries

Boadway, Robin W. - 2019

This paper discusses how decentralized countries can achieve sound fiscal relations between the central government and lower government levels. The concepts of 'vertical gap' and 'vertical balance' provide an analytical framework for identifying and addressing key challenges. These concepts can...

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Decentralization and Financial Management Seminars for Cameroon Councils (Capacity Building Project)

Nguh Jam, Augustine A. - 2019

The amended constitution of the Republic of Cameroon in 1996: Law No. 96-06 of 18 January 1996 amending the Constitution of 2 June 1972, states that Cameroon is a “Unitary and Decentralized State”, Etat Unitaire et Decentralisé in French. Cameroon having been a highly centralized...

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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Local Economic Growth. The Case of Romania

Szabo, Septimiu - 2019

The paper looks into the fiscal decentralization developments that took place recently in Romania, focusing on the local economic benefits. Similar to previous studies, the analysis uses an econometric growth model that tests the relationship between fiscal decentralization and local economic...

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Foot Voting, Decentralization, and Development

Somin, Ilya - 2019

We can enhance development by making it easier for people to “vote with their feet” between jurisdictions. Few, if any, policy reforms can achieve such enormous increases in economic growth and opportunity. Foot voting is, in several crucial respects, a better mechanism of political...

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Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools

Cong, Lin William - 2019

The rise of centralized mining pools for risk sharing does not necessarily undermine the decentralization required for permissionless blockchains: Each individual miner's cross-pool diversification and endogenous fees charged by pools generally sustain decentralization, because larger pools...

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Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and Anonymous Systems

Calcaterra, Craig; Kaal, Wulf A.; Andrei, Vlad - 2019

Autonomous decentralized validation of domain-specific reputation is a core decentalized infrastructure necessity.The main design goals for measuring domain-specific reputation in autonomous decentralized and anonymous systems are to:1) evaluate domain specific reputation across a wide variety...

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Designing organizations in volatile markets

Liu, Shuo; Migrow, Dimitri - 2019

Multinational and multiproduct firms often experience uncertainty in the relative return of conducting activities in different markets due to, for example, exchange rate volatility or the changing prospects of different products. We study how a multi-divisional organization should optimally...

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Inefficiencies in the financing of Finnish county governments : lessons from the literature on fiscal federalism

Kortelainen, Mika; Lapointe, Simon - 2019

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Decentralization with porous borders : public production in a federation with tax competition and spillovers

Armbruster, Stephanie; Hintermann, Beat - 2019

We analyze the strategic interaction of regional and federal governments using a model that includes fiscal externalities in the form of inter-regional capital tax competition and technical externalities in the form of inter-regional spillovers. The federal government aims to correct for these...

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