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Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a Medio-Lungo Termine della Spesa Farmaceutica

SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - 2013

We use the same methodology, that Ecofin-Oecd apply for projecting expenditure in the medium-long term, to reconstruct expenditure in the medium-long past. It is possible to compare the effective expenditure with the reconstructed one. The effective expenditure is of course influenced by policy...

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015221831

Who Contributes? A Strategic Approach to a European Immigration Policy

Russo, Giuseppe; Senatore, Luigi - 2011

According to the Lisbon Treaty the increasing cost of enforcing the European border against immigration shall be shared among the EU members. Nonetheless, the Treaty is rather vague with respect to the "appropriate measures" to adopt in order to distribute the financial burden. Members who do...

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Unemployment and Clientelism: The Piqueteros of Argentina

Ponce, Aldo Fernando - 2006

This paper sheds light on possible explanations for the growth and endurance of the piquetero 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 to the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015235920

Assessing Trends and Patterns of the Effect of COVID-19 on Public Transit Revenues in the City of Calgary

Wenshuang, Yu; Lindsay M., Tedds; Gillian, Petit - 2022

Using monthly public transit revenue data from January 2015 to December 2021, we investigate the effect of COVID-19 on public transit revenues in the large urban municipality of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. We find that revenue from transit fares dropped immediately and significantly after the...

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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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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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