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The impact of Fiscal decentralization on regional development

Elezi, Shiret - 2024

Fiscal decentralization of power from the central to the local level in North Macedonia officially began on July 1st … start creates misbalanced financing of LGSUs. The main issue is fiscal decentralization and balanced regional development … decentralization. So far, researches are prepared about balanced regional development and fiscal decentralization, but those researches …

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Revenue Persistence and Public Service Delivery

Cassidy, Traviss - 2017

I exploit unusual policy variation in Indonesia to examine how local responses to intergovernmental grants depend on their persistence. A national reform generated permanent increases in the general grant that were larger for less densely populated districts, while hydrocarbon-rich districts...

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Instilling cooperation in turbulent times: some issues before the 16th Finance Commission

Pethe, Abhay; Karnik, Ajit; Lalvani, Mala; Kelkar, Hemangi - 2024

The geopolitical situation globally and in the immediate neighborhood, as well as the domestic fault lines that have been magnified by the recent Indian national elections, provide a context to the paper. As the 16th Finance Commission begins its deliberations, this paper underlines the crucial...

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The performance of local government in the execution of public works

Guccio, Calogero; Pignataro, Giacomo; Rizzo, Ilde - 2009

This paper aims at analysing the procurement of public works paying attention to the level of government involved. Such an issue has not received so far attention in the literature on fiscal federalism nor in the public works procurement literature. We focus the attention upon the execution...

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Unemployment and Clientelism: The Piqueteros of Argentina

Ponce, Aldo Fernando - 2006

This paper sheds light on possible explanations for the success and sustainability of the piqueteros social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I show which institutional arrangements, political actors, and configurations of power contributed...

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The political economics of the Malaysian subnational governments’ fiscal behavior

Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah - 2009

This paper attempts to shed light on the political economy of the Malaysian state governments’ budgetary behavior by tailoring hypotheses drawn from recent theoritical literature to the Malaysian institutional context and testing them empirically. Our main objective here is to examine whether...

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Understanding Malaysian State Governments Fiscal Behavior: The Role of Intergovernmental Transfers

Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah; Abdul Karim, Noor Al-Huda - 2009

As of late, several state governments in Malaysia have been identified as having serious difficulty in meeting their financial needs, to the extent of the government being qualified as on the verge of bankruptcy. One of the explanations put forward is that state governments have been acting...

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Do Intergovernmental Grants Improve Public Service Delivery in Developing Countries?

Cassidy, Traviss - 2017

other potential mechanisms. I discuss implications for decentralization policy and research on taxation and accountability. …

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Per un giusto equilibrio tra efficacia ed efficienza nell’attuazione della legge delega sul federalismo fiscale: verso la definizione dei LEP e dei costi standard delle Regioni

Villani, Salvatore - 2010

Per quanto concerne la finanza delle Regioni – ed in particolare, per la determinazione delle “spese essenziali” riconducibili al vincolo di cui alla lettera m), secondo comma, dell’art. 117 della Costituzione – nella “legge delega in materia di federalismo fiscale” (legge 5 maggio...

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Questioni concernenti la nozione di costo standard: la mobilità dei pazienti e le mode sanitarie

Pica, Federico; Villani, Salvatore - 2010

The issues of patients’ interregional mobility and «health fashions» are, somehow, exemplary cases: they show that it is not possible tackling correctly financial issues (such as the financing of local public services or their standard cost) provided by the Enabling Act on Fiscal Federalism...

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