The prevailing belief is that local governments, which are closer to their citizens, can deliver
public goods much more efficiently than a central government can. Yet skeptics argue that …

Highlights•Public spending on environment offers results only in a longer time
perspective.•Taxes bring little incentives to reduce environmental pollution.•The …

Based on panel data from 2000 to 2015, this study estimates the green total factor
productivity (GTFP) of each of the 11 provinces in the Yangtze River economic belt using z …

The research analyzes the impact of environmental regulation on industrial green
development using panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2006 to 2018. We employ …

This paper offers an assessment of tax administration performance and provides evidence of
the relationship between fiscal decentralization (and tax structure) and the technical …

Based on the panel data of 24 provinces from 2010 to 2018, the static panel model was
utilized to analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization and economic growth on poverty …

Contrary to the Chinese central government's strong encouragement of green development,
the initiative of local governments in pollution control remains inefficient. This phenomena …

This study of the effect of decentralization on government performance differs from the vast
literature on the topic in three major ways. First, we compare the effects of four different forms …

Fiscal decentralization is one of the tools for the central government to engage local
governments in environment management. However, its effects are inconclusive. This paper …

In this article, we empirically analyze the impact of central and subnational government
spending on human development in a sample of 57 developed and developing countries …