- Local Development, Disaster Culture, Participatory Decision Making, Decentralization, Community Resilience, Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, and 5 moreState And Local Public Finance, Local Government and Local Development, Fiscal federalism and decentralization, Local Government and Regional Administration, and Pemerintah Daerahedit
Research Interests: Business, Accounting, Corporate Governance, Capital Markets, Agriculture, and 15 moreAutonomy, Comparative Advantage, Currency, Capital Formation, Bonds, Current Account Deficit, Cash Flow, Consumer Durables, Assets, Capital Market, Balance Sheets, Cash Flows, Capital Stock, creditors, and Capital Account
Research Interests: Business, Accounting, Corporate Governance, Capital Markets, Agriculture, and 15 moreAutonomy, Comparative Advantage, Currency, Capital Formation, Bonds, Current Account Deficit, Cash Flow, Consumer Durables, Assets, Capital Market, Balance Sheets, Cash Flows, Capital Stock, creditors, and Capital Account
... este articulo, en particular, examinamos la presencia de competencia fiscal espacial (en sus formas de externalidades del gasto, competencia ... Economics Department, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University 1... more
... este articulo, en particular, examinamos la presencia de competencia fiscal espacial (en sus formas de externalidades del gasto, competencia ... Economics Department, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University 1 We are grateful to Yudha Permana and ...
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The effective and equitable delivery of primary education, basic local health services, and similar public services are critical to achieving national policy priorities and global development objectives. At the same time, the delivery of... more
The effective and equitable delivery of primary education, basic local health services, and similar public services are critical to achieving national policy priorities and global development objectives. At the same time, the delivery of these public services is fundamentally local in nature. As a result, an effective local governance system is indispensable to the localization of public services and to the achievement of sustainable development goals.
This study presents a comparative analysis of local government systems in six countries, including Cambodia (a sectorally deconcentrated system); Mozambique (a territorially deconcentrated system); Kerala, India (a mixed system, where recurrent services are delivered in a deconcentrated manner, while infrastructure development responsibilities are devolved to local governments); the Philippines (a devolved system, with some elements of deconcentration); as well as Tanzania and Indonesia (examples of devolved systems).
The comparative analysis is guided by the Local Governance Institutions Comparative Assessment (LoGICA) Framework developed by Boex and Yilmaz (2015), which provides a comparative assessment of the five main dimensions of a local governance system, including an analysis of (a) the effectiveness of the subnational governance structure and assignment of functions to the local level; (b) dynamic and responsive local political systems and leadership; (c) local control over administration and service delivery; (d) local fiscal autonomy and local financial management and (e) local participation and accountability mechanisms.
This study presents a comparative analysis of local government systems in six countries, including Cambodia (a sectorally deconcentrated system); Mozambique (a territorially deconcentrated system); Kerala, India (a mixed system, where recurrent services are delivered in a deconcentrated manner, while infrastructure development responsibilities are devolved to local governments); the Philippines (a devolved system, with some elements of deconcentration); as well as Tanzania and Indonesia (examples of devolved systems).
The comparative analysis is guided by the Local Governance Institutions Comparative Assessment (LoGICA) Framework developed by Boex and Yilmaz (2015), which provides a comparative assessment of the five main dimensions of a local governance system, including an analysis of (a) the effectiveness of the subnational governance structure and assignment of functions to the local level; (b) dynamic and responsive local political systems and leadership; (c) local control over administration and service delivery; (d) local fiscal autonomy and local financial management and (e) local participation and accountability mechanisms.
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Decentralisation reforms are among the most common and significant public sector reforms, particularly in developing and transitional countries around the world. Despite the importance of the topic to policy practitioners and academic... more
Decentralisation reforms are among the most common and significant public sector reforms, particularly in developing and transitional countries around the world. Despite the importance of the topic to policy practitioners and academic researchers alike and the extensive empirical research on the topic, there is consensus in the literature that the measures of decentralisation that are currently used are unsatisfactory. In response, we propose an alternative measure of fiscal decentralisation based on the notion that decentralisation is more than simply the inverse of centralisation. Following Bahl (2005), we consider fiscal decentralisation as ‘the empowerment of people by the [fiscal] empowerment of their local governments’. Accordingly, we develop a measure of fiscal empowerment that allows us to quantify fiscal decentralisation as the gain in empowerment due to devolution and we analyse the proposed measures of empowerment and decentralisation for a cross-section of developing, transitional and industrialised countries.