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Ageing, Welfare Serviced and Municipalities in Finland

Lundsgaard, Jens - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

With population ageing setting in sooner and more forcefully than in other OECD countries, Finland needs to reorder its … OECD Economic Survey of Finland (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/finland) updating the Survey’s analysis by incorporating data for …

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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Public Spending in Finland

Hemmings, Philip; Turner, David; Parviainen, Seija - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003

Finland is committed to high quality and extensive public services and a high level of income redistribution. The heavy … public services. This paper, one of a series of OECD reviews on public expenditure, looks at how Finland is coping with this … challenge. It concludes that the fundamental framework guiding public expenditure in Finland is sound. And, in many areas of …

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Decentralization in Developing Economies

Singhal, Monica; Gadenne, Lucie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less decentralization, particularly on the revenue side, than both...

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Decentralization in Developing Economies

Gadenne, Lucie; Singhal, Monica - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 581-604

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Getting the Most Out of Public Sector Decentralisation in Spain

Joumard, Isabelle; Giorno, Claude - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

In about two decades, Spain was transformed from one of the most centralised countries to one of the most decentralised. Spending functions were devolved rapidly. The regions have exercised their discretionary powers quite extensively and innovative policies have been implemented. But devolution...

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Getting the Most Out of Public Sector Decentralisation in Mexico

Joumard, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

Enhanced autonomy of sub-national governments has spurred innovative management. Spending assignments across levels of government, however, often overlap and/or are not yet fully understood by most citizens. Sub-national governments’ accountability is further reduced by the heavy reliance on...

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As the People Want It, Blueprint for a New Confederation

Knutsen, John F - EconWPA - 2004

Presents a complete and detailed constitutional framework applying the rational self-interest model and market mechanisms to intra and inter- governmental behaviour and collective decisions. In particular, the paper presents an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of...

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Optimal taxation and intergovernmental transfer in a dynamic model with multiple levels of government

Gong, Liutang; Zou, Heng-fu - China Economics and Management Academy, Central … - 2001

In this paper, we study the optimal choices of the federal income tax, federal transfers, and local taxes in a dynamic model of capital accumulation and with explicit gamestructure s among multipleprivateage nts, multiplelocal governments, and the federal government. In general, the optimal...

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Проблемы формирования негосударственного сектора социальной работы

Kuznetsova, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The article is about problems of formation the non-state sector of social work in Russia. The author analyzes the specificity of functioning non-state sector of social work. Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of public formations the non-state sector as subjects of social work.

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Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery: Spending Your Donations

Henderson, J. Vernon; Lee, Yong Suk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper analyzes how different organizational structures between funding and implementing agencies affect the quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the implied objective functions and trade-offs concerning aid...

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