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The Case of Brazilian Local Governments
Abstract: "This paper discusses trends in fiscal adjustment in Brazil since the 1990s, with particular emphasis on the strengthening of institutions f...
The Case of Moldova
This paper examines the relationship between fiscal decentralization—the assignment of revenue sources and expenditure functions across government l...
The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterp...
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 mobilizati...
Developing and transition economies are prone to financial crises, including balance of payments and banking crises. These crises affect poverty and t...
Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests empirically whether such a relationship exists. The empi...
A Covariance Structure Model
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This paper discusses trends in fiscal adjustment in Brazil since the 1990s, with particular emphasis on the strengthening of institutions for fiscal p...
Government spending plays a critical role in protecting and enforcing rights and civil liberties. Empirical evidence for a sample of industrial and de...
Countries where social and political institutions stimulate interpersonal trust, civic cooperation, and social cohesiveness tend to have more efficien...
Using data for a sample of developing and transition countries, this paper estimates the relationship between government spending on health care and e...
This paper assesses changes in the size and scope of government in 24 transition economies. Whereas these governments have retrenched in terms of publ...