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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Decentralization in Argentina
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| Autores: |
Habibi, Nadir
Huang, Cindy
Miranda, Diego
Murillo, Victoria
Ranis, Gustav
Sarkar, Mainak
Stewart, Frances
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| Data: |
2006-01-30
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| Ano: |
2001
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| Palavras-chave: |
Fiscal decentralization
Human development
Argentina
Political Economy
O18
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| Resumo: |
Human development, reflected in the status of peoples levels of health and education, affects future growth and, in turn, is affected by decentralization. Unlike earlier exclusive emphasis on budgetary issues, this study focuses on the impact of fiscal decentralization on the level of human development. It traces the origin and recent development of revenue-sharing arrangements across Argentinas provinces over time (1970-94). The study regresses two indicators of health and educational status on two decentralization measures. It highlights the link between decentralization and human development outcomes and suggests that devolutionary decentralization has a positive influence on the effectiveness of public policy directed towards an improvement in the level of human development. Decentralization is shown to reduce intraregional disparities and increase levels of human development. While the paper also recognizes problems associated with decentralization, including addressing inter-regional disparities, the positive impact of decentralization schemes on human development is seen to be of relevance in evaluating the Argentine co-participation regime which is currently under negotiation.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
19717
http://purl.umn.edu/28455
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
Yale University>Economic Growth Center>Center Discussion Papers
Center Discussion Paper No. 825
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| Formato: |
58
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