Can Fiscal Decentralization Strengthen Social Capital?
By Luiz R. De Mello. Social Science Research Network, 2004
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Countries that are rich in social capital, defined as the social and political institutions that stimulate interpersonal trust, civic cooperation, and social cohesiveness, tend to have more efficient governments, have better governance systems, and grow faster. This article provides preliminary cross-country evidence for 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.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations
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- The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization: A Survey (2015, unknown): “In the same vein, de Mello (2004) provides support for a positive and significant effect of both revenue and expenditure decentralization and several social capital indicators for a wide sample of market economies.”
- Decentralization for improving the provision of public services in developing countries: A critical review (2020, background): “Several arguments have followed the efficiency gains that can be derived from decentralisation could also be outweighed by other efficiency gains arising from central provisions such as economies of scale and the ability to attract better personnel (De Mello, 2004).”
- Decentralization and governance: a special issue of World Development, 2013 (2014, background): “Dillinger and Webb (1999), Wildasin (1998), de Mello (2000), and Montero and Samuels (2004) confirm an empirical link between decentralization and macroeconomic instability for different samples of developing and developed countries.”