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Can Fiscal Decentralization Strengthen Social Capital?

July 1, 2000

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Can Fiscal Decentralization Strengthen Social Capital?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed September 19, 2024
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Summary

Countries where social and political institutions stimulate interpersonal trust, civic cooperation, and social cohesiveness tend to have more efficient governments, better governance systems, and faster growth. This paper provides cross-country evidence, based on a sample of developing and developed countries, that fiscal decentralization—the assignment of expenditure functions and revenue sources to lower levels of government—can boost social capital and therefore be integrated into second-generation reforms.

Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal federalism, Fiscal policy, Macro-fiscal analysis, Public debt, Revenue administration

Keywords: Civic cooperation, Community member, Decentralization, Decentralization indicator, Expenditure share, Fiscal decentralization, Fiscal federalism, Governance, Macro-fiscal analysis, Social capital, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    30

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2000/129

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1292000

  • ISBN:

    9781451855104

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941