The (Mis-) Measurement of Fiscal Decentralization in Developing and Transition Countries
| Autor: | Jamie Boex, Benjamin Edwards |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
Public Administration Public economics business.industry 05 social sciences Public sector Developing country 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology Decentralization Devolution 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Economics Transition countries 050207 economics Literature study business Finance Public finance |
| Zdroj: | Public Finance Review. 44:788-810 |
| ISSN: | 1552-7530 1091-1421 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1091142115616183 |
| Popis: | There is an extensive literature on the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth, development, and public sector effectiveness. However, the empirical literature on fiscal decentralization has exclusively focused on measuring the finances of elected or “devolved” local governments. Other types of decentralized expenditures, including deconcentrated and delegated expenditures, have been systematically excluded from measurement and analysis in the public finance and development literature. Our analysis considers the extent to which using devolved expenditures as a proxy for all devolved expenditures may have impacted the findings of the empirical literature. We collect comprehensive vertical expenditure profiles for health and education services in twenty-nine developing and transition countries and find that by exclusively focusing on devolution, previous analyses have overlooked two-thirds of local public sector expenditures. By excluding these “nondevolved” decentralized expenditures, the previous (often inconclusive) empirical analyses are likely to have suffered from omitted-variable bias. |
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