Fiscal decentralisation and local government efficiency: Does relative deprivation matter?

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...

Decentralisation and Local Government Topic Guide

Transfer payment structure and local government fiscal efficiency: evidence from China

Background: After revenue-sharing system reform, the proportion of tax refund in fiscal transfer payments continued to decline, and the proportion of categorical grant and condition grant is increased. The paper studies how transfer payment structure effect fiscal efficiency from the perspective of local financial revenue structure. Methods: This paper use the SE-DEA model to measures the finan...

Decentralisation and Local Governance

0 Fiscal Decentralisation in the Czech Republic