Fiscal Decentralization and Governance : A Cross-Country Analysis.

Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization-the assignment of expenditure and revenue mobilization functions to subnational levels of government-is associated with various indicators of governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and government...

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団体著者: International Monetary Fund
フォーマット: 雑誌
言語:English
出版事項: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
シリーズ:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/071
オンライン・アクセス:Full text available on IMF
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520 3 |a Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization-the assignment of expenditure and revenue mobilization functions to subnational levels of government-is associated with various indicators of governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness. Unlike previous studies in the decentralization/governance literature, which focus primarily on expenditure-based measures of decentralization, the results reported in this paper show that the relationship between decentralization and governance depends on how subnational expenditures are financed. The higher the share in total subnational revenues of nontax revenues and grants and transfers from higher levels of government, the stronger the association between decentralization and governance. 
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