Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in Selected European Countries

Slavinskaitė, Neringa

doi:10.3846/16111699.2017.1292312

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“…With maternal mortality being an integral part of the MDGs, developing countries have been experimenting with different types of intervention to increase access and utilization of maternal care services including for example, subsidies, vouchers, or conditional cash transfers programs (CCTs) [63][64][65][66]. However, evidence on the effectiveness of these interventions is still scarce and the debate on how best to promote access and utilization is still ongoing.…”

Section: Fiscal Decentralization and Maternal Mortality Ratementioning

confidence: 99%

Fiscal Decentralization and Social Service Delivery Policy Response in Nigeria

Edame

Okoi

Aja

et al. 2023

JEMT

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This study examines the impact of fiscal decentralization on social delivery policy response in Nigeria, utilizing panel data for fourteen states in Nigeria for the period covering from 2000 to 2019. Specifically, this study evaluates the impact of fiscal autonomy on social indicators such as infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate and adult literacy rate. The panel vector error correction mechanism (PVECM) the granger causality test was employed as the estimation techniques. The result of the granger causality test to determine the direction of causality relationship among the variables in the estimated model showed that there was one way directional causality running from maternal mortality rate (MMR) to fiscal autonomy (FISA); adult literacy rate (ADLIT) to population (LPOP); population (LPOP) to maternal mortality rate (MMR), adult literacy rate (ADLIT) to maternal mortality rate (MMR), and education expenditure (LEDU) to fiscal autonomy (FISA). This means that maternal mortality granger caused fiscal autonomy in Nigeria. The result also implies that adult literacy rate granger caused growth in population, and growth in population granger caused maternal mortality rate in Nigeria. The error correction variable in the infant mortality rate equation has the coefficient of 0.069. This indicates that approximately 6.9 percent of the distortion in the system would be corrected each whenever the system moves away from equilibrium. This depicts a slower speed of adjustment mechanism from the disequilibrium in the short run to equilibrium in the long run. The estimated infant mortality rate equation has a very good fit on the data and very high explanation power, given the adjusted R-squared of 0.736. The adjusted R-squared of 0.736 showed that approximately 74 percent of variation in the dependent variable (infant mortality rate) was accounted for by variations in the independent variables. This result is not in agreement with the theoretical postulate. In real term, the result showed that an increase in education expenditure by one percent would lead to a decrease in adult literacy rate by 0.22 percent, other things being equal. This result showed that spending in education has not improved the literacy rate in Nigeria. This suggests that it is either the fact that spending in education by the government has been so small that it cannot bring about improvement in the literacy or that funds meant for educational projects are siphoned into private pause, thereby resulting to huge decline in terms of literacy rate. Lastly, growth in population has a declining effect on adult literacy rate in Nigeria. This inference is in accordance with a priori expectation showing that as population increase, pressure is being put on the existing educational facilities and overwhelm it, leading to the decline in adult literacy rate. In concrete term, an increase in population by one percent resulted to a decrease in adult literacy rate by 0.73 percent, other variables remaining the same. Based on our result, the study made some policy recommendation for the states to double their efforts in generating their internal revenue to become fiscally autonomous less reliance on the federal government for allocation. Also, there is need for the government to raise her expenditure in education and health sectors so as to increase the literacy rate and health sector outcomes in the country.

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Section: Fiscal Decentralization and Maternal Mortality Ratementioning

confidence: 99%

Fiscal Decentralization and Social Service Delivery Policy Response in Nigeria

Edame

Okoi

Aja

et al. 2023

JEMT

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“…According to many studies, one of the key policy elements that affect economic growth is fiscal decentralization (FD) [4,5]. The goals of economic development have shifted over time, but the importance of FD in development has not.…”

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Fiscal Decentralization, Environmental Regulation and High-Quality Economic Development

Zhou

Zhu

2023

Sustainability

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Fiscal decentralization, as a policy with which to regulate the financial power relationships between central and local governments, undoubtedly has an impact on high-quality economic development, and in the current context of focusing on environmental quality its path may include environmental regulation, which is restricted by the degree of decentralization and directly affects high-quality economic development. Based on data from 30 Chinese provinces from 2010 to 2019, this paper empirically tests the moderating effect of environmental regulation on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and high-quality economic development through the use of an intermediary-effect model, a threshold model, and a quantile regression model. The following are the main conclusions: First, fiscal decentralization encourages high-quality economic development with a coefficient of 0.069, but environmental regulation dampens this effect, with a coefficient value of 0.0055 for the suppression effect; after removing endogenous effects, the conclusion remains valid. Second, the influence of fiscal decentralization has different manifestations under different environmental regulation intensities and different levels of high-quality economic development: fiscal decentralization has a larger regression coefficient when the intensity of environmental regulation exceeds 0.0108; it only shows a positive effect in regions with a higher quality of economic development (after the 25% quantile). The main contribution of this paper is the discussion of the impact of fiscal decentralization on high-quality economic development from the perspective of environmental regulation and revealing of a new path for fiscal decentralization to play its role, which is of certain significance in exploring the appropriate degree of decentralization and formulating environmental regulation policies.

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“…The process of financial decentralization has been taking place in Ukraine since 2014. In this process country's economic development level is an important factor when introducing reform of fiscal decentralization (Slavinskaitė, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Influence of state financial control on state authorities functioning

Petrychuk¹,

Чеховська²,

Verba³

et al. 2022

Cuest. Pol.

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The purpose of the study is to characterize the impact of state financial control on the functioning of public authorities and to highlight the directions for the development of state financial control in Ukraine. The methodological basis of the article is a system of general and special scientific methods (dialectical, formal-logical, comparative legal, analytical, etc.). It is proved that in most countries there are formal systems of state financial control, the subjects of such control and their powers are clearly defined. It has been established that in Ukraine there is a centralized model of activity of state financial control bodies, which does not meet the current challenges. It is concluded that the presence of unified and clearly defined tasks, methods and principles, taking into account the specifics of the national legislation and the socio-economic situation that ensures the effective work of state financial control bodies and improves financial and budgetary discipline. It is based on the priority of three vectors of development of the state control system: formation of a clear structure of state control subjects; development of a legislative framework and unified methodology and, finally, introduction of modern information and innovative technologies.

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Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in Selected European Countries

Cited by 21 publications

References 43 publications

Fiscal Decentralization and Social Service Delivery Policy Response in Nigeria

Fiscal Decentralization and Social Service Delivery Policy Response in Nigeria

Fiscal Decentralization, Environmental Regulation and High-Quality Economic Development

Influence of state financial control on state authorities functioning

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