Designing Sound Fiscal Relations Across Government Levels in Decentralized Countries

Towards More Efficient Government : Reforming Federal Fiscal Relations in Germany

74323 Document complet disponible sur OLIS dans son format d'origine Complete document available on OLIS in its original format ECO/WKP(99)1 2 ABSTRACT/RÉSUMÉ In Germany fiscal relations between the various levels of government have come to the fore of the policy debate. In practice the federal fiscal setup has evolved towards consensus and cooperation , where equalisation of living standards t...

OECD Network on Fiscal Relations Across Levels of Government PROMOTING PERFORMANCE: USING INDICATORS TO ENHANCE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SUB CENTRAL SPENDING

Unifying Semantic Relations Across Syntactic Levels

We construct a list of binary semantic relations that combines three lists recognized at different syntactic levels { multi-clause sentences, clauses, noun phrases. We identify relations that are the same at diierent levels and represent them in a level-independent way. We base our construction on the fact that many syntactic variants express the same idea, and a linguistic expression displayin...

an investigation of accuracy and complexity across different proficiency levels in written narrative task

abstract this quasi-experimental study was aimed at examining the impact of storyline complexity on the grammatical accuracy and complexity of advanced and intermediate efl learners. a total of 65 advanced and intermediate efl learners were selected from iran language institute (ili). an intact group including 35 intermediate participants and another intact group with 30 advanced participants ...

Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size

This paper explores the link between fiscal decentralization and government size in Latin America. While most related work attempts to test Brennan and Buchannan's "Liviathan" hypothesis, here the emphasis is placed on a different channel: the potential for decentralization to aggravate the common pool problem. In addition to the degree of expenditure decentralization, we consider the importanc...