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Local governments’ fiscal balance, privatization, and banking sector reform in transition countries
Crivelli, Ernesto - 2012
Several transition economies have undertaken fiscal decentralization reforms over the past two decades along with … liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618582
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Fiscal Decentralization and Public Subnational Financial Management in Peru.
Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BACKGROUND -- III. DECENTRALIZATION AND OVERALL FISCAL CONSTRAINTS -- IV …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012691111
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Platform Precommitment via Decentralization
Reuter, Marco - 2024
only if the size of the locked-in effect exceeds some threshold. Further, progressive decentralization through airdrops can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015058696
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Fiscal Decentralization Improves Social Outcomes When Countries Have Good Governance
Nakatani, Ryota - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060378
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Uganda : Managing More Effective Decentralization
Brosio, Giorgio - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. A BENCHMARK: PRINCIPLES OF DECENTRALIZATION REFORM -- III. UGANDA …'S DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS: THE INSTITUTIONS -- IV. SPECIFIC OUTCOMES IN SERVICE DELIVERY -- V. FINAL REMARKS -- References. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042569
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Social Capital and Civil Society
Fukuyama, Francis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
Social capital is an instantiated informal norm that promotes cooperation between individuals. In the economic sphere it reduces transaction costs, and in the political sphere it promotes the kind of associational life that is necessary for the success of limited government and modern democracy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769240
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Recent Improvements to the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook Database in Response to Analytical Needs
Seiferling, Mike - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The demand for high quality detailed public finance statistics covering a globally representative sample of countries has increased dramatically during the recent financial crisis. Due to the complexity of public finance statistics, however, such data tend to be either available in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142010
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Another Look at Governments’ Balance Sheets; The Role of Nonfinancial Assets
Bova, Elva; Dippelsman, Robert; Rideout, Kara C; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
When discussing debt reduction strategies, little attention has been given to the role of governments’ nonfinancial assets. This is in part because data are scarce. Drawing on various data sources, this paper looks at the size, composition, and management of state-owned nonfinancial assets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242186
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Fiscal Decentralization and the Efficiency of Public Service Delivery
Sow, Moussé; Razafimahefa, Ivohasina Fizara - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It uses a … stochastic frontier method to estimate time-varying efficiency coefficients and analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization on … those efficiency coefficients. The findings indicate that fiscal decentralization can improve the efficiency of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242349
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Too Small to Fail? Subnational Spending Pressures in Europe
Eyraud, Luc; Badia, Marialuz Moreno - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to assess whether expenditure decentralization has contributed to weakening fiscal … following questions: (1) does the form of spending decentralization affect the general government fiscal balance?; (2) is there … results indicate that current decentralization models may have some shortcomings and efforts to achieve fiscal consolidation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790279