Fiscal Decentralization Improves Social Outcomes When Countries Have Good Governance /

Does fiscal decentralization improve health and educational outcomes? Does this improvement depend on the quality of governance? How do fiscal decentralization and governance interact? We answer these questions through an instrumental variable Tobit analysis of cross-country panel data. We find nega...

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Egile nagusia: Nakatani, Ryota
Beste egile batzuk: Garcia Valdes, Isaura., Zhang, Qianqian
Formatua: Aldizkaria
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022.
Saila:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2022/111
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