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Fiscal Decentralisation in Haryana : Some Suggestions for the Sixth State Finance Commission

Panda, Pradeep Kumar - 2021

Through 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments, Panchayat and Municipal systems were provided a systematic and endurable structure of participatory political process at grassroots level. State finance commission is constituted for determination of vertical and fiscal transfers to municipalities...

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The Regional Dimension of Collective Wage Bargaining : The Case of Belgium

Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Tojerow, Ilan - 2021

The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in European countries. Two solutions are generally proposed: the first, encouraged by the European...

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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Letting States Do the Dirty Work : State Responsibility for Federal Environmental Regulation

Sigman, Hilary - 2021

Under most U.S. environmental regulations, the federal government shares responsibility with the states by authorizing them to implement and enforce federal policies. Authorization provides states with considerable discretion over the effects of regulation and is perhaps the most significant...

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Environmental Decentralization, Local Government Competition, and Regional Green Development : Evidence From China

Wu, Haitao; Li, Yunwei; Yu, Hao; Ren, Siyu; Zhang, Pengfei - 2021

Environmental management systems may play an important role in environmental pollution control. Given China’s rapid economic development and increases in environmental pollution, this study attempts to study how environmental decentralization and local government competition affect China’s...

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Decentralization and Local Ethnic Favoritism : Micro-Level Panel Evidence from Indonesia

van Hoorn, André; Rademakers, Robbert - 2021

Whereas ethnoregional favoritism by national leaders is widely studied, ethnic favoritism at lower government levels is likely a more salient source of ethnic resentment. Relying on individual-level panel data from Indonesia and a historical instrument we establish that ethnic favoritism is...

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Participatory Democracy for Inclusive Devolution

Natarajan, Lucy - 2021

The UK2070 Commission promotes inclusive devolution as a key element in tackling inequality in the UK, and this paper … considers what it might entail. Devolution is part of the Commission’s agenda for rebalancing the economy, which involves long … considers all of the dimensions of inequality and all communities’ concerns. So, devolution will not in itself be inclusive …

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Decentralized Exchanges

Lehar, Alfred; Parlour, Christine A. - 2021

Uniswap is one of the largest decentralized exchanges with a liquidity balance of over 3 billion USD and daily trading volume of over 700 million USD. It is designed as a system of smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, and is a new model of liquidity provision, so called automated market...

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Sovereign Digital Currency System with Decentralized Infrastructure

Summanen, Karl - 2021

In this paper, we consider the concept of a 1-tier national monetary system based on a digital sovereign currency issued by a central bank. In contrast to the approach, based on a centralized technical infrastructure, used in most, if not all, CBDC projects, we suggest to use a decentralized...

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Organization, Autonomy and Decentralization in the Information Age

Llamas Covarrubias, Jersain Zadamig - 2021

In this research, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are approached, from an aspect of representation, executive function and acts of administration in contemporary governments. A study is carried out on Blockchain technology in harmony with the current social participation circumstances,...

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