Does Decentralization Reform Always Increase Economic Growth?: A Cross Country Comparison of the Performance
Does Decentralization Reform Always Increase Economic Growth?: A Cross Country Comparison of the Performance
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分权改革总是能促进经济增长吗？：跨国绩效比较
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2010
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Tobin Im
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Tobin Im
本研究旨在检验分权对一国经济增长的影响。基于63个国家1960 - 2007年时间序列的纵向数据集，检验结果显示财政分权与GDP增长、政治分权与GDP增长均存在负相关关系。为了审查权力下放的不同影响，同样的分析适用于根据国家经济阶段分为三组的国家子集。进一步分析发现，发展中国家的政治分权与经济增长呈负相关，半发达国家的财政分权与经济增长呈负相关，而发达国家则无相关。这些结果表明，权力下放并不总是有助于经济增长，这意味着时间变量，或者更准确地说，一个国家的经济发展阶段，是引入权力下放改革的一个重要因素。
This study aims to test the impact of decentralization on the economic growth of a country. Based on the longitudinal data set of 63 countries with a time series spanning 1960 to 2007, the test result reveals that there is a negative relationship both between fiscal decentralization and GDP growth and between political decentralization and GDP growth. In order to examine the different impacts of decentralization, the same analysis was applied to subsets of countries categorized into three groups according to the economic stage of the country. This further analysis found that there is a negative relationship between political decentralization and growth in developing countries, between fiscal decentralization and growth in semi-developed countries, but no relationship in developed countries. These results show that decentralization is not always instrumental in economic growth, which means that the time variable, or more precisely the stage of economic development of a country, is an important factor when introducing decentralization reforms.