Fiscal Decentralization, Chinese Style: Good for Health Outcomes?

Fiscal Decentralization, Chinese Style: Good for Health Outcomes?

— This study analyzes the effect of fiscal decentralization on health outcomes in China using a panel data set with nationwide county-level fiscal data. We find that more fiscally decentralized provinces have lower infant mortality rates than provinces that are the main spending authority, if certain conditions are met. Key among those conditions are the county governments’ own fiscal capacity ...

Chinese-Style Decentralization and Health System Reform

1 Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2 UNICEF Office for China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 3 Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 4 Department of Health Statistics and Social Medicine, Fudan University School of Public Health, Shanghai, People’s R...

Implementation Rules for Fiscal Decentralization

Rising Chinese regional income inequality: The role of fiscal decentralization

Article history: Received 16 August 2011 Received in revised form 5 February 2013 Accepted 12 February 2013 Available online xxxx This article examines the quantitative effects of the Chinese fiscal system on the increasing regional income inequality in China, from 1978 to 2007. Fiscal decentralization is a multifaceted concept not likely to be captured by a single measure. This paper investiga...

Partial fiscal decentralization

The fiscal decentralization impulse now sweeping the world often leads to partial decentralization, where subnational governments are funded by central transfers, rather than leading to full local autonomy. Despite the practical important of this arrangement, the literature contains no economic analysis of a partial decentralization regime in a Tiebout-style model. This paper provides such an a...