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Public sector efficiency in Europe : long-run trends, recent developments and determinants

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Kucsera, Dénes - 2018

This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …-oriented efficiency of the public sector. We find that countries with small public sectors tend to be more efficient no matter which …

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Decentralization policies in public administration in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and their impact on building offices' scale efficiency

Fandel, Peter; Marišová, Eleonóra; Malatinec, Tomáš; … - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 9 (2019) 4/89, pp. 1-15

aim of improving the efficiency of the delivery of services. This paper presents a comparative scale efficiency analysis … created municipalities with delegated or extended competencies. This study aims to contribute to the research on efficiency in … public administration. We focused on the relationship between two types of DPSs, and units' scale efficiency. We also tried …

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Decentralization in Thailand

Unger, Danny; Mahakanjana, Chandra - In: Journal of Southeast Asian economies 33 (2016) 2, pp. 172-187

While close to 8,000 local bodies operate in provinces, municipalities, and sub-districts, Thailand is a highly centralized state. This is largely due to control over provincial and district level governments by the powerful Ministry of Interior (MoI). In the late 1990s, substantial political...

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Municipal bonds as new instrument for enhancing local economic development in Republic of Serbia

Vučetić, Dejan; Jovanović, Miloš - In: Facta Universitatis / Series economics and organization … 10 (2013) 2, pp. 101-116

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Local government fragmentation and the local public sector : a panel data analysis

Goodman, Christopher B. - In: Public finance review : PFR 43 (2015) 1, pp. 82-107

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Blending top-down federalism with bottom-up engagement to reduce inequality in Ethiopia

Khan, Qaiser; Faguet, Jean-Paul; Ambel, Alemayehu - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 96 (2017), pp. 326-342

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Local governments and economic freedom : a test of the Leviathan hypothesis

Millsap, Adam A.; Hobbs, Bradley K.; Stansel, Dean - In: Public finance review : PFR 47 (2019) 3, pp. 493-529

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Political decentralization and corruption : exploring the conditional role of parties

Shrestha, Kshitiz; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Hankla, Charles - 2021

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Transformation from below in Bolivia and Bangladesh : decentralization, local governance, and systemic change

Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2015

I examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics it unleashed in the much-noted case of Bolivia and the less-noted case of Bangladesh. I argue that the national effects of decentralization are largely the sum of its local-level effects. Hence to understand decentralization we...

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Political decentralization and corruption : exploring the conditional role of parties

Shrestha, Kshitiz; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Hankla, Charles - In: Economics & politics 35 (2023) 1, pp. 411-439

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