Does Fiscal Decentralisation Foster Regional Investment in Productive Infrastructure?

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The Indonesian Inter-regional Social Accounting Matrix for Fiscal Decentralisation Analysis

Disparities in development have long been a crucial issue in Indonesia. With regard to the new structure of the Indonesian government, it is of great interest to determine whether Indonesia should further decentralise its budget, and if so, what consequences this would have on the national economy overall. This paper develops a simple economic tool — that is an inter-regional social accounting ...

ECONOMICS FISCAL DECENTRALISATION AND INEQUALITY IN INDONESIA: 1999-2008 by

This paper investigates the evolution of expenditure inequality in Indonesia during 1999-2008, a period that coincides greatly with the implementation of fiscal decentralisation policy. In general, the results show increasing expenditure inequality evident in a decreasing share of income in the bottom 10 percent, and an increasing share in the top 10 percent. Further examination employing the t...

Does Fiscal Federalism Promote Regional Inequality? An Empirical Analysis

This paper explores the relationship between fiscal federalism, understood as institutionalized regional economic self-rule, and convergence in regional per capita incomes. The principal economic argument against fiscal federalism is that, unless paired with generous equalization grants, it will enhance regional inequalities by reducing inter-regional redistribution. Does the evidence support t...

Fiscal Decentralisation and efficiency of government. A brief literature review

Fiscal decentralisation can be defined as a two-dimensional policy institution that involves either decentralisation of a tax instrument, when local governments have the power to raise taxes, or decentralisation of expenditures when local governments bear the responsibility for implementing expenditure functions. The way in which fiscal decentralisation affects the "quality" of government activ...