Constant Fouopi Djiogap, Justin Romuald Amougou Manga, Simon Pierre Onana, Fabrice Ewolo Bitoto
Abstract We study the effects of fiscal decentralization on people's access to health and education services in Cameroon. It is generally believed that fiscal decentralization is an essential way to improve people's access to social services such as education and health. After reviewing the literature, we employed the Driscoll and Kraay estimate in a sample of 45 rural and urban municipalities for the period 2010–2020 to find our results. The results show that fiscal decentralization has a positive effect on the number of classrooms per pupil and the number of desks per pupil. At the same time, it negatively affects public hospitals per capita and the state of public hospitals. To improve people's access to education and health services in Cameroon, it is necessary to encourage the transfer of powers to municipalities. There is a need to control the actions of local officials to avoid mismanagement of resources that will not benefit the population. Also, the responsibility for selecting communal projects financed via the public investment budget within the framework of decentralization should be exclusively that of municipal executives, and not that of the central government.
ABSTRACTIn decentralization, local governments are required to be able to manage their respective fiscal resources, including capital expenditures. high economic growth in a region will ideally increase regional revenues and at the same time increase capital expenditure on the regional government. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of economic growth in moderating the influence of Local Own Revenue (Pendapatan Asli Daerah-PAD), General Allocation Funds (Dana Alokasi Umum-DAU), Special Allocation Funds (Dana Alokasi Khusus-DAK), and Remaining Budget Financing (Sisa Lebih Pembiayaan Anggaran-SILPA) on capital expenditure in Regencies/Cities. in Central Java Province. This research is quantitative using moderated regression analysis (MRA) which was processed with Eviews software version 10. Empirically, in 175 samples consisting of 35 Regency/City Regional Governments in Central Java Province in 2017-2021 it was found that without being moderated economic growth DAU has a positive effect on capital expenditure. Meanwhile PAD, DAK, and SILPA had no positive effect. The existence of economic growth is able to strengthen the influence of PAD and SILPA on Capital Expenditures. However, it was unable to strengthen the influence of the DAU and DAK on capital expenditure.Keywords: Capital Expenditure; Economic Growth; Regional Income ABSTRAKDesentralisasi menuntut pemerintah daerah untuk mampu mengurus sumberdaya fiskalnya masing-masing, termasuk di dalamnya pembelanjaan modal. tingginya pertumbuhan ekonomi suatu daerah idealnya akan meningkatkan penerimaan daerah dan sekaligus meningkatkan pembelanjaan modal. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji peran pertumbuhan ekonomi dalam memoderasi pengaruh dari Pendapatan Asli Daerah (PAD), Dana Alokasi Umum (DAU), Dana Alokasi Khusus (DAK), dan Sisa Lebih Pembiayaan Anggaran (SILPA) pada belanja modal pada Kabupaten/Kota di Provinsi Jawa Tengah. Penelitian ini bersifat kuantitatif dengan moderated regression analysis (MRA) yang diolah dengan software Eviews versi 10. Secara Empiris, pada 175 sampel yang terdiri dari 35 Pemerintah Daerah Kabupaten/Kota di Provinsi Jawa Tengah tahun 2017-2021 ditemukan hasil bahwa tanpa dimoderasi pertumbuhan ekonomi DAU berpengaruh positif pada belanja modal. Sementara itu PAD, DAK , dan SILPA tidak berpengaruh positif. Adanya pertumbuhan ekonomi mampu memperkuat pengaruh PAD dan SILPA pada belanja modal. Namun tidak mampu memperkuat pengaruh DAU dan DAK pada belanja modal.Kata Kunci: Belanja Modal; Pendapatan Daerah; Pertumbuhan Ekonomi
This chapter presents an account of the sources of local finance in the American political system. ‘Local’ refers to local governments, but principally municipalities, rather than school districts, townships or other special districts. Altogether there are over 80,000 units of local government in the United States. The purpose of this review is to contrast the situation in Britain with that of the United States against the capacity of local authorities to raise and control their finances. The central argument is that the differences between the two countries in this regard hinge critically upon the degree of local autonomy found in each political system. Local autonomy is fundamentally a political issue deriving from the nature of central-local relations in each country and the political assumptions informing these respective relationships influenced by the political culture. The United States is a federal polity imbued throughout with the culture of decentralization and local autonomy: local governments remain creatures of their regional states (see below), though they exercise some autonomy within those constraints. By contrast, British local authorities are tightly constrained by Parliamentary legislation as to what they can and cannot do. But there is an important tradition of local authorities determining their own revenue needs and allocation of their funds in Britain: it is this tradition which has been eroded since the 1970s by the central government, manifested most forcibly in the realm of central-local financial relations. This erosion of local autonomy is a political process motivated and shaped by political interests and concerns. Economic, and other, rationales may well be produced for particular arrangements but these must be analysed in their political context.
This paper investigates the impact of digital inclusive financial development on local government expenditure incentives at the income level. It does so by constructing a multi-level government Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model that incorporates the financial sector. By employing empirical methods that involve uncertainty shocks and counterfactual simulations, the research yields several key findings. Firstly, the development of digital inclusive finance contributes to breaking down the urban-rural dual financial structure, thus facilitating balanced economic development within regions. Secondly, it reduces the proportion of financially excluded areas, accelerates fiscal decentralization, leading to an increase in local government fiscal revenue, and, consequently, an expansion of local fiscal expenditures. Thirdly, at a certain stage of digital inclusive finance development, it tends to crowd out residents' investment and consumption. Therefore, the decentralization of fiscal power and the expansion of local government expenditure at this stage may paradoxically inhibit regional economic growth. The study's conclusions validate the significant impact of digital inclusive finance on local government incentives at the income level.
This paper investigates the distribution of public school expenditures across U.S. school districts using a bayesian maximum entropy model. Covering the period 2000-2016, I explore how inter-jurisdictional competition and household choice influence spending patterns within the public education sector, providing a novel empirical treatment of the Tiebout hypothesis within a statistical equilibrium framework. The analysis reveals that these expenditures are characterized by sharply peaked and positively skewed distributions, suggesting significant socioeconomic stratification. Employing Bayesian inference and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling, I fit these patterns into a statistical equilibrium model to elucidate the roles of competition, as well as household mobility and arbitrage in shaping the distribution of educational spending. The analysis reveals how the scale parameters associated with competition and household choice critically shape the equilibrium outcomes. The model and analysis offer a statistical basis for shaping policy measures intended to affect distributional outcomes in scenarios characterized by the decentralized provision of local public goods.
Abstract Based on the perspective of fiscal decentralization, the study focuses on 30 provinces in China and employs various econometric models including the threshold model, spatial econometric model, mediation model, and regulation model. The research findings indicate that fiscal decentralization has a double‐threshold effect on government intervention, market mechanisms, and regional carbon emission reduction. Both government intervention and market mechanisms have inhibiting effects on carbon emission, with significant coefficients of GOVI and MARM at the 1% level. The cooperation between government intervention and the market mechanism effectively limits carbon emissions. Government intervention facilitates regional carbon emission reduction through the construction of new infrastructures and energy structure transformation, yielding a significant intermediary effect. The market mechanism is positively regulated through green finance and technology innovation to promote regional carbon emission reduction. Moreover, government intervention enables the market to achieve carbon emission reduction more effectively, especially in areas with a higher degree of government intervention. Continuous improvement and upgrading of regional and national carbon markets are essential to attain the carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. Furthermore, attracting more participants to these markets for emission control subjects is necessary to enhance the effectiveness of government–market coordination.
Decentralized finance [DeFi] uses a combination of existing block chain-related technologies — such as digital assets, wallets, smart contracts and auxiliary services including Oracles. Common services offered by DeFi platforms include payments, loans, trades, investments, insurance and asset management. Present research work discusses the benefits and challenges faced by decentralized finance. This also further explores the hierarchical inter-relationships amongst them using ISM methodology. It further discusses about Fiscal decentralization.
This paper examines the effect of intergovernmental fiscal transfers on the fiscal behaviour of local governments in Ethiopia for the period 2004-2018. The empirical findings suggest that central government grants bolster state-level employment and expenditure. However, grants from the central government to states do not crowd out state-level revenue collection. Hence, this paper argues that fiscal decentralisation in Ethiopia has mostly, at least in theory, taken the form of devolution of the power to tax and spend public money. However, on average state-level revenue can only finance up to 26 percent of their annual expenditure. As a result, fiscal federalism in Ethiopia appears to be a delegation of spending responsibilities. It must be considered in a decentralized tax system, but with a transfer scheme and political hierarchy. The results are robust to alternative econometric estimation techniques.
The often-forgotten dimension of public infrastructure finance is the difficulty of maintaining a proper level of infrastructure in good condition. Given that increasing responsibilities for public infrastructure investment have been decentralized worldwide, this study investigates the impact of fiscal and political decentralization on infrastructure maintenance expenditures using a panel cross-country analysis from 1995 to 2020. To address the endogeneity concerns and estimate the causal impact of fiscal decentralization (revenue and expenditure decentralization), this research uses the Geographic Fragmentation Index and country size as two valid instrumental variables for fiscal decentralization. Our main results confirm that fiscal and political decentralization measures are found to increase public spending on road maintenance. The findings are robust to alternative model specifications and different measures of fiscal and political decentralization.
Environment policies have evolved over the years around the world, in part due to growing awareness among the population of the challenges posed by climate change. The decentralization of policymaking, administrative and political responsibilities to the subnational levels of administration may also have played a part to the extent that it creates room for bottom-up policy experimentation and citizen participation in policy design, including in areas related to the environment, that may influence people’s preferences and attitudes and ultimately government policy. To shed light on these linkages, this paper provides cross-country empirical evidence based on national accounts data that decentralization is associated with higher government spending on environment-related programmes, as well as higher collection of environmental taxes in the advanced economies, controlling for conventional public finance covariates.
This paper examines the impact of government investment by the local government to stimulate the local economy and social security expenditure to protect the poor in the local economy. Unlike government expenditure by the central government, the local government expenditure may suffer from efficiency loss due to the absence of nationwide `planning' and `coordination.' This paper, using the Korean panel data, empirically show that the government investment to stimulate the local economy incurs efficiency loss due to `coordination failure,' while the social security expenditure does not. The result requires us a cautious and precise approach to 'decentralization of public finance unlike decentralization of political power.
Yinxin Su, Yuzhe Wu, Charles L. Choguill, Jiaojiao Luo · 5 authors
Transit-oriented development (TOD) is a sustainable land use planning tool based on land value-added capturing and urban quality improvements and has been vigorously promoted by Chinese city governments. However, few studies have been conducted on the role of the ‘land finance’ model and on people-oriented planning approach focusing on urban inclusive growth. This paper examines the current implementation of TOD in China and attempts to explore the approach to the paradigm transformation of urban development in China. Evidence from Hangzhou illustrates that the current land-centered and property-led urban rail transit construction, although contributing to the economic sustainability of ‘urban development strategy’, has led to unaffordable housing prices and failed to decentralize population away from downtown areas. This study highlights inclusive growth models which integrate TOD planning with affordable housing for the floating population, not only to ensure equity in housing affordability and space accessibility but also to promote polycentric urban development strategies. The locations of inclusive growth models include new towns/sub-cities, traditional cores and suburbs, which are all based on existing industrial cluster areas and promote the full utilization of existing public service facilities.
This study aims to determine the effect of fiscal decentralization on capital expenditure in the Districts and Cities of West Nusa Teggara in the period of 2011-2021. In this study, fiscal decentralization is represented by Original Regional Revenue (ORR), General Allocation Fund (GAF), Special Allocation Fund (SAF), and Reveneu Sharing Fund (RSF). The resources of data used are budget realization report of 10 Regency/City Regional Government Province of West Nusa Tenggara that was published at the Directorate General of Financial Balance Ministry of Finance. The type of research is quantitative. Data analysis using panel data regression analysis which is used the combination period/years of 2011-2021 time series data and used the crosssection data of 10 Regency/City Regional Governments in Province of West Nusa Tenggara. The results of the study show that Original Regional Revenue (ORR) has a insignificant effect on capital expenditure. General Allocation Fund (GAF) has positive and significant effect capital expenditure. Reveneu Sharing Fund (RSF) has a positive and significant effect on capital expenditures. Special Allocation Fund (SAF) has a positive and significant effect on capital expenditures.
The process of fiscal decentralization, as a typical feature of contemporary societies, implies the transfer of public functions and public revenues from higher to lower levels of authorities in order to ensure the financing of the transferred functions. The trend of fiscal decentralization has created the increased need for own revenues of local self-government units. The rates of these revenues are determined by local authorities, either independently or in line with the statutory limits. In the Republic of Serbia, own revenues of local self-government unit include different local public utility fees. In this paper, the authors deal with the financial autonomy of local self-government units observed through the lens of local public utility fees, (i.e. their yields), whereby the research will be limited only to the local self-government units in the territory of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The authors will also attempt to determine the factors that affect the rates and abundance of these revenues of local self-government units.
Fiscal decentralization is the transfer of responsibility between the provision of public services and sources of financing by the central government to lower levels of government, with the outcome depending on how the process itself is devised and implemented. Proper and balanced implementation of fiscal decentralization leads to economic growth, achieving economic goals that can bring economic benefits. In addition to economic benefits, decentralization could lead to greater accountability, transparency, and citizen engagement, which would also improve the level of democracy in society. Since 2002, the Republic of Croatia has secured a significant amount of financial resources through the system of tax revenue sharing and aid allocation, which has significantly improved the fiscal capacity of all local units. The impact of fiscal decentralization in the Republic of Croatia on economic growth was tested using a panel analysis. From the results obtained, there is a significant positive relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic activity, and based on the results obtained, it can be concluded that fiscal decentralization in the Republic of Croatia had a positive impact on economic growth. This also confirms the role of lower levels of government established to improve the quality of life of citizens by deciding on the provision of local public services close to where they are provided and close to the users, providing better education, social and health services and infrastructure, thus positively influencing economic growth. In further research, it is necessary to focus on the creation of a better system of financing lower levels of government and on the fiscal autonomy of local units in the Republic of Croatia, in order to make the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth even more evident and to have as much influence as possible on the even development of the Republic of Croatia.
This study emphasizes the implication of dynamic connection between digital currency and Nigerian economic growth rate by focusing attention on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin with respect to their returns and volatility from 2010Q4 to 2022Q3. As a way to have a robust estimation, we model our analysis using ARDL model and granger causality test. This model is rather useful to have both short and long run estimations. Importantly the study’s outcome conforms with the fundamentals. By findings from the study, the trend analysis suggests that the country’s exchange rate moves in line with digital currency activities while at the same time signifies some implication on the growth rate of the Nigerian economy. While lower returns for Bitcoin and Litecoin increase growth rate, the return for Ethereum rather move in the same direction as the growth rate. This indeed suggest that most Nigerians into digital currency activities often engage in portfolio diversification among available coins. The study further found that low volatility in the market will raise (significantly especially for Ethereum) growth rate of the economy while causal implication run from returns and volatilities of these coins to growth and exchange rates. Indeed, the findings have important policy implication for the Nigerian economy which suggests paying good attention to digital currency activities in the country and formulating necessary policies to improve it.
Carol Nalubanga, Edmand Bakashaba, Muhammad Sendagi
Background. Aim: To determine the relationship between municipal government revenue collection and service delivery in Rukungiri Municipality. Methodology A case study, descriptive, cross-sectional research design was used for this study. The study adopted both qualitative and quantitative approaches. A case study design was adopted because it enabled the researcher to carry out an in-depth investigation into the concepts under study. The entire population of Rukungiri Municipality is targeted in this research. Also, the municipality has 51 civil servants/technical staff, 20 political leaders (councilors) at municipal and Division levels, 20 taxpayers, 7 service providers, and 25 community projects’ beneficiaries. This is based on different stakeholders’ information relevance in their respective positions. Therefore, the population of the study was 1400 people. A sample of 302 respondents were selected Results One of the findings mentioned is the importance of local revenue in decentralized societies. While it’s true that local revenue plays a significant role in financing local government operations and service delivery, it is important to consider the capacity of local governments to effectively collect taxes. Many local governments in developing countries face challenges in revenue collection, including limited tax bases, weak tax administration capacity, and high levels of tax evasion and informality. Therefore, simply relying on local revenue may not be sufficient to meet the financing needs of local governments and ensure adequate service delivery. Conclusion The findings indicate that there was a positive and moderately strong relationship between revenue collection and service delivery (r = 0.719). This relationship implies that the municipality is using its collected revenue to fund its expenditures for service delivery. Recommendation Strengthen local revenue collection: Rukungiri Municipality should enhance its capacity to collect local taxes and fees efficiently. This can involve investing in modernizing revenue collection systems, training staff, and conducting public awareness campaigns to ensure compliance.