Decentralization and economic growth in Europe: for whom the bell tolls

Carniti, Elena; Cerniglia, Floriana; Longaretti, Riccarda; Michelangeli, Alessandra

doi:10.1080/00343404.2018.1494382

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“…Indeed, taken together, the overall levels of sub-national governance autonomy in the UK are below Romania and Ukraine and akin to countries such as Moldova or Albania (OECD, 2019c). In contrast, the evidence suggests that beyond a decentralisation threshold of close to 50 per cent of public investments, national economic growth is positively related to further decentralisation (Carniti et al, 2019), and these are the types of sub-national revenuegeneration and expenditure shares which are typical of the UK's main comparator and competitor countries. As such, the hyper-centralised UK would therefore appear to be at a serious structural disadvantage also in term of generating higher returns from public investments.…”

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Uk Interregional Inequality in a Historical and International Comparative Context

Incera¹,

McCann²,

Ortega‐Argilés³

et al. 2020

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This paper explores the nature and scale of inter-regional and inter-urban inequalities in the UK in the context of international comparisons and our aim is to identify the extent to which such inequalities are associated with strong national economic performance. In order to do this, we first discuss the evolution of UK interregional inequalities relative to comparator European economies over more than a century. We then focus specifically on comparisons between the UK and the reunified Germany. These two exercises demonstrate that the experience of the UK has been rather different to other countries. We further explore UK inter-urban inequalities in the light of international evidence and then explain why observations of cities only tell us a partial story about the nature of interregional inequalities, especially in the case of the UK. Finally, we move onto an OECD-wide analysis of the relationships between economic growth and interregional inequality. What we observe is that any such relationships are very weak, and the only real evidence of a positive relationship is in the post-2008 crisis period, a result which points to differentials in regional resilience rather than inequality-led growth. Moreover, once former transition economies are removed from the sample, the relationship disappears, or if anything becomes slightly negative. As such, the international evidence suggests that the UK’s very high spatial inequalities have hampered, rather than facilitated, national economic growth.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 88%

Uk Interregional Inequality in a Historical and International Comparative Context

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McCann²,

Ortega‐Argilés³

et al. 2020

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“…What might explain the difference in impact between developing and developed countries? While this question goes beyond the scope of this paper, one hypothesis that has been advanced in previous literature is the potential nonlinear relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth (Thiessen, 2003;Carniti et al, 2018). Drawing on this literature, it is expected that more developed countries (OECD) may present higher levels of fiscal decentralization and a stronger impact on economic growth, while low income countries may show weaker effects on economic growth.…”

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confidence: 93%

Identifying and disentangling the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth

2020

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The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies was established at Georgia State University with the objective of promoting excellence in the design, implementation, and evaluation of public policy. In addition to two academic departments (economics and public administration), the Andrew Young School houses seven leading research centers and policy programs, including the International Center for Public Policy. The mission of the International Center for Public Policy (ICePP) at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies is to provide academic and professional training, applied research, and technical assistance in support of sound public policy and sustainable economic growth in developing and transitional economies. ICePP is recognized worldwide for its efforts in support of economic and public policy reforms through technical assistance and training around the world. This reputation has been built serving a diverse client base, including the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), finance ministries, government organizations, legislative bodies, and private sector institutions.

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“…Here, the blended physical-tosocial separation has further blended with a very particular instance of political break-up, to creatively describe this person's likely impression that Brexit was as detrimental as the individual parting of ways. Some very recent studies similarly use the opening lines of the poem to discuss topics as diverse as economic growth (Carniti et al, 2019), access to justice (Font-Guzmán, 2019) and the COVID-19 pandemic (Mann, 2020).…”

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Multilevel grounded semantics across cognitive modalities: Music, vision, poetry

Antović

2021

Language and Literature

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This article extends the author’s theory of multilevel grounding in meaning generation from its original application to music to the domains of visual cognition and poetry. Based on the notions of ground from the philosophy of language and conceptual blending from cognitive linguistics, the approach views semiosis in works of art as a series of successive mappings couched in a set of six hierarchical, recursive levels of constraint or grounding boxes: (1) perceptual, parsing the stimulus into formal gestalten; (2) cross-modal, motivating schematic correspondences between the stimulus so structured and the listener’s embodied experience; (3) affective, ascribing to this embodied appreciation dynamic sensations, as in the distinction between tense and lax parts of the perceptual flow; (4) conceptual, drawing analogies between such schematic and affective appreciation and elementary experiential imagery, resulting in outlines of narratives; (5) culturally rich, checking such a narrative outline against the recipient’s cultural knowledge; and (6) individual, adding to the levels above idiosyncratic recollections from the participant’s personal experience. The goal of the analysis is to show that the interpretation of constructs from different semiotic modes (music, vision and language) may rely on the same grounding levels as it ultimately depends on the same perceptual, embodied and contextual circumstances. Specifically, the article uses the system to analyse the possible reception of a section from the romance for violin and orchestra ‘The Lark Ascending’ by Ralph Vaughan Williams, the painting ‘The Last Supper’ by Leonardo da Vinci and the poem ‘No Man Is an Island’ by John Donne.

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Decentralization and economic growth in Europe: for whom the bell tolls

Cited by 31 publications

References 44 publications

Uk Interregional Inequality in a Historical and International Comparative Context

Uk Interregional Inequality in a Historical and International Comparative Context

Identifying and disentangling the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth

Multilevel grounded semantics across cognitive modalities: Music, vision, poetry

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