Public Goods Provision
Food Security and Elite Ruler Relations in Sub Saharan Africa: Exploring the impact of democracy on public goods provision
... A now well established consensus contends that institutions are critical in determining economic and human development outcomes (North 1990, Hall & Jones 1999, Acemoglu, Johnson & Robin- son 2001, Rodrik, ...
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Optimal public goods provision: implications of endogenizing the labor/leisure choice
... L,, is also assumed, optimistically, to be the optimal level of leisure for the initial level of public goods provision, QQ.^ MC in Figure 1 represents the marginal provision cost of pro[r] ...
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Status Effects, Public Goods Provision, and the Excess Burden
... bles the seminal work of Sandmo (1975), who derived the optimal first- and second-best taxes when production or consumption of one of the goods in- volves an externality. However, in contrast with Sandmo’s ...
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Success versus failure in local public goods provision: council and chiefly governance in post war Makeni, Sierra Leone
... of public goods available in the city is, at least in part, the product of a troubled history with ...export goods were less lucrative and required less investment in supportive technologies, ...
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Government action under constraints: fiscal development, fiscal policy and public goods provision during the great depression and in 19th and early 20th century Brazil
... bodies in a consistent manner for a substantial number of countries worldwide, and it allows me to study national-provincial and municipal defaults separately. Second, I employ a flexible and robust econometric strategy, ...
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An auction mechanism for public goods provision: an experimental study
... bien public discret: les individus peuvent contribuer `a tout moment durant un intervalle de temps fix´e; `a tout moment le montant total collect´e est affich´e aux individus; `a la fin de l’intervalle de temps, ...
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Natural resources, rent dependence, and public goods provision in China: evidence from Shanxi’s county-level governments
... Addressing these unsolved problems, this paper employs a county-level dataset from Shanxi Province to explore the effect of coal resources on government expenditure al- location. Counties in Shanxi Province are quite ...
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Wealth Distribution and the Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the United States
... With the advantage of consistent data and more detail on the historical context, the results in this paper can be shown to be compatible with a median voter model once we carefully distinguish redistribution from ...
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Social capital in hill farming: report for the International Centre for the Uplands, Penrith, Cumbria
... for public goods associated with changes in agricultural ...of public goods, little is known of the demand situation – either now or in the ...leisure provision (Glyptis, 1989) and the ...
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How Large Should the “Bullets” be? Dissecting the Role of Unilateral and Tie Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods
... There has been a burgeoning literature on punishment mechanisms in improving cooperation in public goods provision (see Chaudhuri (2011) for an excellent survey). Depending on the administration body ...
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A Note on Within group Cooperation and Between group Interaction in the Private Provision of Public Goods
... group’s public goods ...concerning public goods provision may be diverse, including non-linear relationships such as conflict be- tween two groups ...
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Testing Ostrom: an Analysis of Water User Committees in Uganda
... from public to private ...and public goods provision in the evaluated ...towards public goods in the SCA. A theoretical model of public goods provision is ...
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Distributive Politics and Economic Ideology
... over public provision of goods in exchange for increases of net ...of public funding of goods, in order to try to prevent the victory of the ideological positions of its ...
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A Battle of Public Goods: Montana's Clean and Healthful Environment Provision and the School Trust Land Question
... Montana's Constitution guarantees its citizens "the right to a clean and healthful environment." 2 This article explores whether Montana's constitutional guarantee o[r] ...
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On the Maximum Number of Players Voluntarily Contributing to Two or More Public Goods
... For example, consider an economy wherein players voluntarily provide two public goods. In this economy, a system of equations representing a Nash equilibrium wherein two players voluntarily contribute to ...
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The rationale and scope for privatisation in Ireland
... single, public sector supplier, or at least in which there is a public sector ...a public sector supplier that incurs higher costs by faithfully executing its USO than a private sector competitor ...
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Fiscal Federalism and Decentralization in Mongolia
... local public services has risen and the demand for more democracy has given elected officials more incentives for decentralization of the fiscal power, thus shifting resources to lower levels of ...
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Productive Public Expenditure in a New Economic Geography Model
... The provision of public goods can also impact upon the migration decision (see for this aspect Baldwin et ...However, public policy is also a central factor determining both the level and the ...
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Provision of goods, facilities and services to trans people
... As explained in our guidance on equality impact assessment, 12 carrying out EIAs is a legal requirement for many public authorities. More importantly, however, it is an effective way of improving policy ...
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The state, its failure and external intervention in Africa
... Where financial aid proved to be insufficient for stabilising the neopatrimonial domination, some governments developed new sources of revenue through illegal or criminal ventures in the form of money laundering, the ...
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