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Yao, Yi; Fan, Shenggen. |
This paper's goal is to increase the understanding of the income and fiscal inequality trends in rural China. Using a comprehensive county-level panel dataset between 1993 and 2002, we describe the dynamic changes in national, regional and provincial inequality measures for income, fiscal spending and local revenues respectively. We examine how the coastal-inland gap, the inter-province gap, and the gap between poor and non-poor counties contribute to the growth of inequality, and devise a decomposition approach to investigate the order of inter-group inequality's contribution to the overall inequality in a multi-tier hierarchical economy. Our major finding reveals that after a turning point, 1998, most income and fiscal inequality trends started to grow... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Regional inequality; Inequality decomposition; Fiscal equalization; Fiscal decentralization; Soft budget constraint; Community/Rural/Urban Development; D3; O18; H3. |
Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25671 |
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Habibi, Nadir; Huang, Cindy; Miranda, Diego; Murillo, Victoria; Ranis, Gustav; Sarkar, Mainak; Stewart, Frances. |
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... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Fiscal decentralization; Human development; Argentina; Political Economy; O18. |
Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28455 |
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