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141801
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This article examines whether fiscal decentralisation in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia between 2005 and 2012 has been achieved at the expense of economic and territorial cohesion. It examines the presence of longstanding socioeconomic disparities and rural under-development, before considering whether fiscal decentralisation has: facilitated a more equitable distribution of public resources; created the optimal conditions for expanding citizens’ access to basic services; and reduced socioeconomic disparities between urban and rural areas. The article argues that unless carefully designed and implemented, fiscal decentralisation reforms can have unintended consequences and may actually exacerbate socioeconomic disparities rather than reduce them.
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ID:
155937
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Using a provincial panel data set taking advantage of the time variations brought about by the 1994 fiscal reform, this study provides empirical evidence to the hypothesis that the level of public service improves when local governments enjoy a certain degree of fiscal autonomy. China is the ideal region for this identification strategy since it has experienced various changes in the central–local fiscal relationships during its economic transition. Besides the ordinary least squares estimation, the instrumental variables approach is also applied to address the problems of measurement error in fiscal decentralisation indexes. This research lends empirical support to the literature, which argues that decentralisation improves the delivery of public services.
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169400
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This article examines non-tax funds in transitional China, with special reference to their impact on local fiscal revenue and local government behaviour since 1994. It is found that official statistics on non-tax funds of local governments have been significantly underestimated because land transfer fees are excluded from those statistics. In addition, the rise of non-tax funds is chiefly caused by changes in the division of central–local revenue and the redistribution of state-owned property rights against a background of fiscal decentralisation. Local governments, functioning like a firm with self-interest, make great efforts to seek non-tax funds, which change the priority order of public services.
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